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What subterfuges did your startup have to resort to in the early days? - vaksel What was your secret sauce to get those early users to sign up? Fake accounts talking to each other? Deep discounts for those early adopters? Giveaways? ====== aristus A friend of mine adopted a persona at gaming conferences to promote h...
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Modernish: a shell moderniser library - sundarurfriend https://github.com/modernish/modernish#modernish-a-shell-moderniser-library ====== oweiler While I applaud the effort and extensive documentation I'd never use something like this in production. For example have a look at the definition of `sfor` ...
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Homogeneous operating systems are better - fallat http://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html ====== jonjacky Besides the two discussed in the linked article, there have been many other attempts to build systems where the OS and all the applications are written in a single lang...
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Nice little W3 toolbox - mikeanders http://www.w3dt.net/ A nice little toolbox thats helpful for all webmasters. Also if you have a suggestion on a tool don't hesitate to tell me about your ideas. Either here or at the sites forum. There are already a couple of tools in development so stay tuned and query away! =====...
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The Tech Beach – Revamp your app design in 31 days - polimorfico http://www.thetechbeach.com ====== stefek99 For the record - another _hacker_ venue at Canary Islands - [http://ch.totalism.org](http://ch.totalism.org) #coliving #coworking but at a much better rate. I would say it's very 'back to the roots' and all ...
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Gut Wars: One Man's Adventure with Antibiotics and Ulcerative Colitis - accarmichael http://www.ubiomeblog.com/gut-wars/ ====== jivardo_nucci Looks like a candidate for a fecal transplant: [http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical- upd...](http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical- upda...
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RF GAN vs. Ldmos for 5G - mrnode https://semiengineering.com/power-amp-wars-begin-for-5g/ ====== mrnode Power Amp Wars Begin For 5G
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Hardware Hacks Are Easier Than They Seem. What Does It Mean for the Future? - gdeglin https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2018/10/04/hardware-hacks-are-easier-than-they-seem-what-does-it-mean-for-the-future/#417d9df25ecf ====== Lind5 The hardware is now part of the attack surface, as well, and that will make i...
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Apple Unveils a More Powerful Apple TV - salimmadjd http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-apple-tv/ ====== athenot The more interesting news is the release of the SDK for the AppleTV. This opens new possibilities. ~~~ malchow Will the new Apple TV be able to play arbitrary files over a networ...
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How to Sell – a guide for SaaS startups - jhchen https://www.entrepidpartners.com/how-to-sell-guide ====== vincentmarle > Common mistakes made by salespeople and founders: > \- Thinking their goal is to close a prospect on the first call > \- Giving a full demo and presenting pricing on the first call > \- Prematur...
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High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain, say researchers - hhs https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/high-doses-of-ketamine-can-temporarily-switch-off-the-brain-say-researchers ====== sibeliuss My experience with Ketamine was that it was simply _too much fun, too weird, and felt too good_ \-- I had t...
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For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening - longdefeat https://twitter.com/JeremyLittau/status/1088503510184927233 ====== chiph > Classified ads were a damn boondoggle. $500 in a mid-metro to place a car > ad. A friend's parent just passed away. There is a state law that says that a death...
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Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID - biafra http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid ====== abalone Just to keep things in perspective, the goal of Touch ID is not to be unhackable. The goal is to get more consumers to move from _zero_ security to pretty good security. A very large number of p...
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Gemfury A/B testing their landing page - listrophy http://www.gemfury.com/37s ====== coderdude Definitely impressed with how quickly they got this page out there. It's a good example of someone seeing a very limited window of opportunity to do something that gets them noticed -- and actually taking it. I'll bet the ...
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The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia - CrocodileStreet http://riowang.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-tomb-of-queen-esther-in-persia.html ====== kweks I happened to head through this region last year. The desert near Isfahan is absolutely mind blowing. It's like procedural generation meets the clone stamp tool. [http://trave...
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Ask HN: Any good books on the history of the internet? - dom2 Looking for some books about the creation and the history of the internet. Ideally not purely technical, with a focus on how society impacted the internet's development and vice versa. ====== mulholio Some of my favourite internet-specific books: \- T...
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Show HN: Using AI to Summarize Terms and Conditions - andrewnc 88% of people never read the terms and conditions of websites or services they use. However, most people want to know what they are agreeing to in those terms. That is why we created Legal Leaf. We strongly believe that everyone should have easy access to ...
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The dystopian world of software engineering interviews - asangha https://www.jarednelsen.dev/posts/The-horrifically-dystopian-world-of-software-engineering-interviews ====== ideal0227 When my classmates were preparing interview coding questions, I was working on a mini TCP implementation and a toy kernel. AWS rejecte...
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R.I.P. Good Times: One Year Later - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/r-i-p-good-times-one-year-later/ ====== JacobAldridge I know I've been reasonably immune to this, being based in Australia (where interest rates are on their way back up!), but doing some global research for a speech I have to give next we...
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IE6 No More - 100k http://www.ie6nomore.com/ ====== gscott Personally, I have a harder time supporting Firefox than any version of IE. The most complicated thing for Firefox is a Rich Text Editor. I cannot tell you how many editors I went through to get one to work with Firefox. I have had Firefox upgrades break ric...
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Drag and Drop with HTML5 (plus source code) - talison http://blog.zenbe.com/2009/07/23/shareflow-drag-and-drop/ ====== wsbail29 here's the direct link to the sourcecode for the DropManager class extracted from our work on this feature. <http://gist.github.com/153019> from the docs... The DropManager class provides a...
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Ask HN: AWS vs. self-hosted for collection of small apps - productionQA Hi All,<p>Curious about your thoughts on paying the $10-15&#x2F;month for a small AWS instance (t1, t2) vs. a self-hosted server.<p>I have a small collection of apps I run, maybe 3 right now, that need to be available to the outside world, but t...
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Ask HN: Developing mobile applications : Android vs iOS - brserc It&#x27;s been a while since I&#x27;ve seen a discussion about whether to develop for android or ios as a developer. Android now has most of the mobile phone market(%80), but most of the developers believe that making money from ios market is easier.<p...
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Ask HN: Freelancing for family? - scottndecker I wrote a static site for my sister who runs a small business from her home. Overall, it went pretty well. We launched the site a few months back. Then it came out that she was pretty much expecting free support afterward via the good ol&#x27; family discount.<p>Have...
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Dear HN - help me with my online dating site - steveeq1 Dear HN,<p>I'm trying to come up with some wildly different approaches to the online dating problem. I'm emphasizing concept development instead of technological development (which is overemphasized, in my opinion).<p>One strategy for instigating creative ideas...
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Misinterpreting Copyright - tjr http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html ====== flipbrad I do take slight issue with articles on copyright theory that go back into the history of copyright but make little or no note of the atoms to bits transition. It's possible, of course, that the author doesn'...
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Is BackPropagation Necessary? - sajid http://deliprao.com/archives/191 ====== _0ffh Short answer: Of course it's not! Slightly longer: The brain almost certainly does not use it, as BP uses nonlocal feedback. Somehow the brain works anyway (well, for a given meaning of "works" ;-), ergo: No BP needed.
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Ask HN: Please review my side project i.crowdfunded.it - d3x http://i.crowdfunded.it<p>Basically it's like a kickstarter for stuff. Right now i am just using Amazon.<p>How It Works<p><pre><code> 1. Search 2. Put stuff in cart 3. Crowdfund it 4. People pitch in 5. Item is shipped once fund is complete</...
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Wikileaks moves to Amazon's cloud to evade massive DDoS - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/11/wikileaks-moves-to-amazons-cloud-to-evade-massive-ddos.ars ====== ars Doesn't hosting with Amazon create a money trail? If the US were to prosecute them, they could subpoena Amazon, and find more members of the...
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Tech Gadgets Vending Machine - laurenceputra http://blog.geeksphere.net/2011/07/09/tech-gadgets-vending-machine/ ====== lsc I've been talking for some time about starting a company to stock old snack vending machenes in data centers; but stock them with things like cisco cons cables, ethernet cables, cage nuts, and ...
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Great Essays and Essayists - jasim http://www.adamponting.com/great-essays-essayists/ ====== thicknavyrain While he doesn't write essays that necessarily create or explain fundamental ideas in the academic sense, I'd definitely pitch for David Foster Wallace as an essayist. I picked up a short collection of his essays...
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Cassandra Performance - mfiguiere http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/2012-in-review-performance ====== endymi0n Cassandra is ugly, hardcore and performant as hell. It's not meant for the casual user, it's really meant to be there for you at scales where MongoDB craps its pants. If you wrap your head around ColumnFamilie...
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A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud - sxates http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/technology/a-silicon-valley-dream-collapses-in-allegations-of-fraud.html ====== calcsam Daniel Tunkelang, the advisor mentioned, is trying to find new homes for the Python developers, so they don't get kicked out of the...
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Docker Bomb - daenz https://github.com/amoffat/dockerbomb ====== jlhawn Very cool experiment! A fork bomb spawns processes at an exponential rate, however it looks like this just creates a linear chain of Docker daemons? > Now wait patiently until your hd fills up. This is obviously slower than a fork bomb, but I wo...
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Twitter is now worth almost as much as Yahoo - stevenj http://qz.com/161691/twitter-is-now-worth-almost-as-much-as-yahoo/ ====== bdcravens Article is from 12/26\. On 12/27 TWTR lost 13%. [http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWTR](http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWTR)
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Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields - aaronbrethorst http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/extracting-structured-data-from-recipes-using-conditional-random-fields/ ====== jawns "But there is an ever-increasing appetite from developers and designers for finely structured data to p...
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Ask HN: Advice on forum software - pkdevil I am looking to create a niche community website (100 to 1000 users in the beginning) with a discussion forum. I had a look at some of the popular software (vBulletin/phpBB - also tried searching on forummatrix.org) but somehow I find most of them to be lacking in one way o...
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Making Java fully dynamic via invokedynamic and dynamic class creation - nerds-central http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2011/05/performing-dynamicinvoke-from-java-step.html The op-code thing is a means to an end. The key of the article is how to use this technique to get at the new invokedynamic op-code and use the ...
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Google's Microsoft Moment - blasdel http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/googles-microsoft-moment.html ====== ZeroGravitas Am I wrong or is this just not true: _"Google's recent development work on applications for mobile devices has often been delivered exclusively as applications for their own Android platform instead...
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How Snapchat secretly bought a struggling startup, then bet the future on it - JumpCrisscross http://www.businessinsider.com/untold-story-vergence-labs-snapchat-acquired-spectacles-2016-11 ====== nsgoetz Snapchat has the scaled back version of the original product on the market but I bet they are still working on the ...
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A new theory about political polarization - samizdis https://phys.org/news/2020-06-theory-political-polarization.html ====== tusharchoudhary Political science seems to be going through a phase of questioning the rationality of voters. The two major theories of public choice -- Median Voter theory[1] (political partie...
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Why Stablecoins Like Basis Won’t Be Stable - d8673821 https://medium.com/@glenjeh/why-stablecoins-like-basis-wont-be-stable-ca42e13a29d8 ====== cimmanom Don't you always have to start with the question of "stable relative to what"? Relative to the price of gold? Relative to the price of Bitcoin? Of USD? Of a loaf of b...
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The Psychology of Envy and Social Justice - peter_d_sherman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcviUfFTQXk ====== peter_d_sherman Disclaimer: I'm not saying that I think the video referenced is right or wrong in any way -- I merely find it _interesting_... Thus, it is submitted for the HN community's approval... ...or ...
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Dynamic Bézier Curves in React - joshwcomeau https://www.joshwcomeau.com/posts/dynamic-bezier-curves ====== themre awesome post for someone who is getting started with SVG animations and curves! thanks!
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VerifyValid - smallegan http://www.verifyvalid.com ====== smallegan I recently signed up for this after hearing some friends try it out and love it. I guess the nicest part is that as an employer I can pay my employees for .50 a check and I don't have to ask for any of their bank account info. They can either print ...
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Show HN: DevTalk - raj_khare https://lit-dawn-62972.herokuapp.com/ ====== isuke Hi I could connect nobody :(
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[mfetch] Make your fetch api become more powerful - JanryWang https://github.com/janryWang/mfetch ====== JanryWang mfetch will provide you with a strong ability to request resource management, at the same time, you can use it very simply
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Microsoft building more Surfaces, adding non-Microsoft retailers - newplagiarist http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/microsoft-building-more-surfaces-adding-non-microsoft-retailers/ ====== oboizt I wish I could pre-order the Pro already. :( ~~~ hmexx me too
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Ask HN: Live chat with visitors (For lean startups and customer development) - edo I wonder if there is a service which allows you to see an overview of website visitors and initiate (pop-up) a javascript chat window with them. By default it should be hidden.<p>This could be intrusive, but it could also be a great t...
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Ask HN: How about an anonymous social network? - mythriel Over the last weeks(since all the crazy stuff regarding the NSA) I was thinking of this startup that would be an anonymous social network. Well not 100% anonymous, your profile would be public&#x2F;private with your data but everything you do and all your comme...
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Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System - kleinmatic http://www.propublica.org/article/our-first-dive-into-the-new-open-payments-system ====== kleinmatic "There is one drug simply listed as 'KNEES' and another as 'Foot and Ankle.'" "The database includes three varieties of Clinpro 5000 toothpaste: bubble g...
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Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti Review - p1esk https://www.anandtech.com/show/13346/the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-and-2080-founders-edition-review ====== shmageggy Are there any deep learning/AI specific reviews out yet? Searching for such is complicated by the fact that these cards use a deep learning component for upsampling or...
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Let’s Talk about Logging - UkiahSmith https://dave.cheney.net/2015/11/05/lets-talk-about-logging ====== absc I generally agree with the article. Personally, I don't log _that_ many informations in my applications. Normally, my users will just dump the whole log in an e-mail with a "doesn't work" message attached. IM...
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PostgreSQL Count(*) Performance Improvements - turrini https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/count-made-fast/ ====== shay_ker The headline makes it sound like they did work to _improve_ the performance of count(*) in the postgres code, when that's not at all what the article is about. This post from Citus is far mor...
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Malware on Linux – When Penguins Attack - fgeorgy https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/07/28/malware-on-linux-when-penguins-attack/ ====== em3rgent0rdr curiously, I'm on fsf-endorsed parabola linux, and of course the soundcloud won't play due to iceweasel's default privacy protections. Could someone who listened t...
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Ask HN: Had you used any dVPN? - chompomonim I see that there are at least a couple of decentralized VPNs out there (Orchid, Sentinel, Mysterium...). How one could choose which to use?<p>I like the idea that they can&#x27;t store logs, they require buying own tokens. So I don&#x27;t want to buy a bit of each of them j...
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Twitter's future could look a lot like its past - razin https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/issues/twitter-s-future-could-look-a-lot-like-its-past-215420 ====== Hamuko I have my doubts about Twitter being able to create an open and decentralized standard considering they still haven't even opened up polls to t...
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JSON or XML: Just Decide - urbanjunkie http://www.mnot.net/blog/2012/04/13/json_or_xml_just_decide ====== justin_vanw JSON is great, but it is not nearly as flexible as XML, partly because of attributes. Also, because of it's JS heritage and compatibility, lots of common things are _not representable_ in JSON. This is...
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Ask HN: Retainer and rate question for software engineer - ncavig I'm curious how a contracting software engineer would structure an agreement for work where there may or may not be time spent actually doing work. Simply put, it's an "on call" type arrangement for server administration and hotfix/bug fixes if the ne...
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Infecting Android applications – The new way - thatskriptkid https://orderofsixangles.com/en/2020/04/07/android-infection-the-new-way.html ====== thatskriptkid The new and efficient way to infect android applications without using vulnerabilies or bugs. With PoC
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The height limit of a siphon - monort http://www.nature.com/articles/srep16790 ====== matthiasl A longer summary: the maximum height of a siphon pumping water, at sea level, predicted by barometric pressure is about 10m. But the tensile strength of water is nonzero (a surprise to me) and that is enough to allow much ...
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Misadventure, a little game based on Faux+Backbone.js - raganwald http://unspace.github.com/misadventure ====== phamilton if it weren't for the "visited" links, I don't think I'd be able to figure it out, with pen and paper at least.
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How To Manage A Tech Career - SeanOC http://antipatter.com/2010/12/how-to-manage-a-tech-career/ ====== sayemm Great post and a wonderful read to kick things off for 2011, thanks for writing this. On a related note, I often think about this quote from Benjamin Franklin: "An investment in knowledge always pays the bes...
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I'm now a full-time freelancer and working alone really depresses me. - Mohamed-Hamo99 So, I am building a place where remote workers can connect with one another based on the similarity of their tasks. It&#x27;s like a co-working space, but on your laptop. it&#x27;s called tribes and here is what it does: https:&#x2F...
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Show HN: Find titles to watch and keep track of everything you watch - gogetakame https://www.addtothelist.com ====== gogetakame Hey everyone! I had previously shared a site I had been working on called AddToTheList. I’m excited to present Version 2 of the site! It is a complete redesign of the site with way more fea...
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Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Crack Devices - aaronbrethorst https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/apple-iphone-police.html ====== zelon88 It's frustrating that you never hear the pro-unlocking scene actually looking past their own noses. Like back when you could bypass a linux login s...
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inDinero (YC S10) peers into your company’s financial future - jlm382 http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/20/indinero-peers-into-your-companys-financial-future-invites/ ====== barmstrong inDinero is a cool idea. One thing I've wondered after seeing it - why the focus on projecting future cash flows? To me the killer app...
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3 Internships Available with Wildly Profitable B2B Software Company (Zannee) - chrishaum Hi Hacker Newsers!<p>With summer here already and your friends off interning at Google or Twitter, some of you may be worried and frustrated about not having an internship of your own.<p>Perhaps none of your summer plans materia...
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Snoopers' charter set to return to law in UK - UVB-76 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/snoopers-charter-set-to-return-to-law-as-theresa-may-suggests-conservative-majority-could-lead-to-huge-increase-in-surveillance-powers-10235578.html ====== luxpir Yup. Came to post a link to Wikipedia[...
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RBG – An Example for Our Times - ananonymoususer https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/09/19/ride-an-elephant/ ====== ananonymoususer My politics are 180 degrees from hers, but I respect that she could put human relationships above politics. We need more of this.
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Machine learning for the impatient: algorithms tuning algorithms - aelaguiz http://www.aelag.com/147952673 ====== danger As another commenter pointed out, the accuracy _really_ needs to be evaluated using a validation set, not the test set--the approach described in the post is training with the testing data. In the f...
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The Ugly Thing about the Hard Thing about Hard Things (2014) - simonebrunozzi https://medium.com/@simon/the-ugly-thing-about-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things-d6445dbb1b09 ====== aszantu Clickbait selling a book ~~~ qnsi he's not selling his book, but Ben Horowitz's one but this article is not that high value. tl;dr...
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Simple data analysis in R - chaostheory http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/04/10/simple-data-analysis-in-r/ ====== schtono Thanks for sharing, R is really a great tool. Using it as well for my PhD thesis because I needed survival/ hazard rate models, which I couldn't find in Eviews, SPSS et al. And btw: If you need...
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A new Operating System - TheUnknown00 https://github.com/TusharPardhe/ ====== achtung666 Yet another generic linux distro. Nothing interesting.
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Fire One, Fire Ten: Implications of the Torpedo Scandal of World War II (2018) - smacktoward https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/2/8/fire-one-fire-ten-implications-of-the-torpedo-scandal-of-world-war-ii ====== desdiv One of my favorite piece of WWII trivia is that Albert Einstein actually worked on fixing th...
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PHP 7 Virtual Machine - lvht http://nikic.github.io/2017/04/14/PHP-7-Virtual-machine.html ====== donatj It's always pleasant to see PHP occasionally get a positive moment in the limelight on HN. It's oft scorned yet powers a very large chunk of the web. With the work done on 7 it's also one of the fastest scripting la...
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After 2 Months, FOBO (YC S11) Has Hit a Million-Dollar Run Rate - ed http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/16/fobo-video/ ====== jw2013 For those of you wondering what were they doing in the huge gap from S11 to two months before. Here are some info: 1) The startup they applied to YC is called Yardsale, and it's still alive:...
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I took a risk leaving school and now I need help - bsho HN has always been one of the first things I&#x27;ve checked when I woke up. I know there is an amazing amount of experience and intellect here. 4 years ago, I applied to Stanford as a direct result of reading (here) about getting out of our comfort zones. I was ...
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Introducing Moments: A Private Way to Share Photos with Friends - jonas21 http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/06/introducing-moments/ ====== pesnk I liked it. I was planning a product like these for a hackaton, mainly because I wanted to have something alike. Glad someone already made it =D ------ squiddle Who consid...
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Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko shot dead in Kiev - thirduncle https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/29/russian-journalist-arkady-babchenko-shot-dead-in-kiev ====== stephen82 He is very much alive. Here is the latest article by theguardian: [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/30/r...
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Similarities between the Learn to Code Movement and Online Poker - dsinsky http://bplesser.com/2014/01/02/similarities-between-the-learn-to-code-movement-and-online-poker/ ====== duffdevice one similarity you called out is "They also share a risk loving profile (though maybe not to quite the same extent)." I don't ...
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Ask HN: Hosting for My Startup’s Website - jetcata It seems like every time I create a new website landing page I have to start researching options from scratch.<p>What do you use to host a basic landing page for your app or startup? ====== smt88 SquareSpace is excellent. For a static, informational site, I don't see ...
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Show HN: Extract a unique CSS selector for any element on any page - GFuller https://flutter.social/bookmarklet ====== petercooper At first glance, I thought this was going to be like Selector Gadget ([http://selectorgadget.com/](http://selectorgadget.com/)), a tool I've used for years to get CSS selectors for element...
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Bold Ambition and Our Core - jdp23 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/index.html ====== kirinan After working many corporate jobs over the years, this kind of rhetoric seems trite and overused. "We are stream-lining our processes and going to empower our employees to change the world!!!!". So many corporations th...
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What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? - kioub http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/08/what-is-dependency-inversion-is-it-ioc.html ====== smoyer Another defining article can be found at <http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html>
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Classical Data Structures That Can Outperform Learned Indexes - chmaynard http://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/2018/01/11/index-baselines/ ====== edchi We actually tested cuckoo hashing against learned hash-maps and in our setup it was slower. One of the main reasons is that cuckoo hashing is quite sensitive to the payload and...
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Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures - Anon84 http://codebetter.com/blogs/matthew.podwysocki/archive/2009/10/09/functional-programming-fundamentals-lectures.aspx ====== apr Oh crap, the vids require Silverlight. ~~~ cvg Just below the player are some other options. MP4 is an alternative. ~~~ apr Thank you, ...
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2 years of digital transformation in 2 months - yarapavan https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/04/30/2-years-digital-transformation-2-months/ ====== yarapavan From Satya Nadella: We delivered double-digit top line and bottom line growth once again this quarter, driven by the strength of our commerc...
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You've Never Seen a Robot Drive System Like This Before - naish http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/youve-never-seen-a-drive-system-like-this-before ====== vermontdevil This is really cool. I do would like to know the possibilities such as using it for larger sized robots for cargo transport etc. ------ R...
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Show HN: Lama.io – Adblock Creative Manager - lgl https://lama.io/faq ====== lgl Hi hn, I've built this as a side project. It's still in early stage and yes, I know it's a controversial subject and these types of systems are often frowned upon here and in more technical corners of the web. This is basically just a sim...
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Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison - a5withtrrs https://darknetlive.com/post/dream-vendor-canna-bars-sentenced-to-prison/ ====== jasoneckert What I find the most interesting about this article is that someone was able to be identified using a picture of their fingerprints. Thus, any photos posted online co...
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Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes - Tomte http://ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com/post/20461267965/learn-to-read-korean-in-15-minutes?resubmit=hn ====== quibit If you want to actually learn Korean, check out this site. [1] An American knowing no Korean moved to Korea and meticulously documented everything he learned, and...
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Airbnb and house-sharing firms reduced New York housing stock by 10% – study - pyrophane https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/airbnb-new-york-city-housing-stock-reduction-study ====== pyrophane Trying to find the original study. It was paid for by housing advocacy groups who generally oppose Airbnb, so I wa...
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A Grain of Salt - dwaxe https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/grain-of-salt ====== franciscop Some of Edward Niedermayer recently written article titles in bloomberg [1]: \- Worker Discontent Makes Tesla a Union Target \- Tesla Needs More Than Elon Musk \- Tesla Will Get Trampled by the Mass Market \- Tesla's Radical U...
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Shameless self promotion - edwardbenson Hey YC crowd,<p>I regularly troll YC news because I've got the entrepreneurial itch that so many share here. I've finally got something to stand up on a stump about, so I thought I'd write a post for once:<p>I just spent the past year working on a book called The Art of Rails ...
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Ask HN: What should I be doing with our business' cash? - recyclelater Using a throwaway account, since we are semi well known. We are a mature, cash flow positive and bootstrapped company that is sitting on a business checking account with $280k in it. $100k is earmarked for 2015 taxes with a known due date. The rest...
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Natural Language for Developers - Perados https://wit.ai/ ====== freen In it's current implementation, Wit.ai is broken. I built a bot recently on it and it was one of the worst experiences I've ever had integrating into a third party API. By a long shot. 1) chat logic is declared on their buggy web platform, which...
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Ask HN: How do I get past beginner-programmer? - sidek Hello. I've always been interested in programming, and I've learned some languages and programmed a few programs. I'm probably best, actually, with ARM assembly for a few reasons I don't want to go into- it has a bit to do with the DS and GBA.<p>However, I alwa...
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The story behind:How we use K8s and spot instances to reduce cost up to 80% - tuananh https://tuananh.net/2020/02/20/the-story-behind-my-talk-cloud-cost-optimization-at-scale/ ====== tuananh author here: this is the story of how we make use of Kubernetes / spot instances and .NET Core to significantly reduce our EC2 b...
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Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree - MrJagil http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/05/upshot/is-sushi-healthy-what-about-granola-where-americans-and-nutritionists-disagree.html?mabReward=A7&moduleDetail=recommendations-2&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&...
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