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Ask Patrick McKenzie (patio11) anything - jroes http://www.anyasq.com/227-i-made-bingo-card-creator ====== bh42222 I used to poor, like seriously, food was an issue, poor. Both of my parents and other close relatives started many businesses. They all failed. They are all intelligent people but they all suck, and I me...
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Steven Pinker Will Be Just Fine - pseudolus https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/steven-pinker-will-be-just-fine/614323/ ====== Miner49er I guess my view is probably a devil's advocate on HN, but I actually view cancel culture as (mostly) good. I believe that that power should always be as decentralized a...
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Top Real-Time Web Products of 2010 - rwwmike http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_real-time_web_products_of_2010.php ====== rwwmike What I really want to know is, what did I leave out? And how long is it until "real-time" is a given? Sorta like calling something "social"?
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Jan '11 H1b/International Edition) - agentx I <i>honestly</i> didn't want to add to the clutter on the frontpage, but once again, I didn't see anything specific for those in need of visa sponsorship (H1b).<p>So if you're hiring (and sponsoring H1b), perhaps you could say so in this thread, or ...
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Show HN:jQuery Signature - Getting a unique signature for a dom element - arunoda http://dokeeno.com/v/blog/jquery-signature:-getting-unique-signature-for-dom-element/getting-started ====== rcsorensen I just wrapped up some code I've used in similar situations: <https://github.com/rcs/jQuery.relativeSelector> Inst...
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Show HN: SnapPrint – Design your t-shirt in less than a minute - gerry_shaw https://snapprint.com ====== gerry_shaw I was frustrated that I work on a T-shirt printing platform but had no way to easily design shirts for myself so after pitching the idea and a couple of months of work we managed to ship this fun app. I...
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Collaborative Editing in ProseMirror - espadrine http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing.html ====== josephg Hi! Joseph Gentle here, author of ShareJS. You quoted me in your article. You're right about OT - it gets crazy complicated if you implement it in a distributed fashion. But implementing it in a c...
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Show HN: Notegraphy, write and publish with style - meerita Dear fellow hackers,<p>Before submitting this, I wanted the app I&#x27;ve been working on posted on the App Store. Notegraphy it&#x27;s a simple tool that help you to produce beautiful texts for sharing as you want.<p>We&#x27;ve made it with rails, AWS and ...
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Here’s an unpopular opinion: We’re lucky Mark Zuckerberg is in charge - rmason https://medium.com/swlh/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-stock-drop-shouldnt-step-down-a4277737152e ====== archevel Interesting angle. Makes me ponder: What if Oracle owned Facebook? ~~~ 1996 What if government agencies p0wned facebook? For all w...
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John Carmack's First Game - santaclaus http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2015/04/game-183-shadowforge-1989.html ====== brey ... similarities I found between me and John Carmack ... We both experimented with burglary as teenagers (he was caught; I wasn't). That's a curious phrasing - echos of 'experim...
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Millions of routers allegedly backdoored with malware that can’t be removed - Liriel http://www.computerworld.com/article/3147958/security/millions-of-routers-allegedly-backdoored-with-malware-that-can-t-be-removed.html ====== PuffinBlue The writing in this article was so spectacularly unclear that it warranted this u...
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Top Android Apps (or "why is there so much garbage on the Android Market?") - stevenwei http://www.stevenwei.com/2010/05/18/top-10-android-apps-or-why-is-there-so-much-garbage-on-the-android-market/ ====== ZeroGravitas I'm not really familiar with Android, but one look at that site suggests that it's not an official...
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Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface - blackswan http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000869.html ====== swombat Hmm, another exaggeration from Jeff Atwood. He's getting good at these. In my experience the metaphor doesn't stretch to RIAs. My start-up's main application is precisely one of those "RIA ...
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Humble Indie Bundle 9 released - makepanic https://www.humblebundle.com/#9 ====== jerf I've slowly been transitioning to Linux-only gaming, because the whole reboot- into-Windows just to play is a pretty steep bar. (Steeper than it even sounds in practice, as now, basically, every time I boot into Windows I have to ...
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Increasing numbers of wingsuit jumpers are dying (2016) - curtis http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/why-are-so-many-base-jumpers-dying/ ====== chrissnell I had a close call this summer whitewater rafting on the Upper Animas River in Colorado and it has caused me to re-think every serious risk I take ...
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Testimony on HB552, to Legalize Bitcoin for Payments of Taxes and Fees - kauffj http://blog.lbry.io/testimony-to-subcommittee-on-hb552-to-legalize-bitcoin-for-payments-of-taxes-and-fees/ ====== umeshunni While I agree with nearly everything he says in that testimony, being less flippant/hyperbolic and more factual mig...
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Ask HN: Is there room for a new ‘curated’ search engine? - keiferski Google results seem to be getting progressively worse, and even if they aren’t, there are too many relevant websites to accurately display on a single search results page. It seems to me that a return to the original Yahoo model might actually have a...
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Mars – a tensor-based unified framework for large-scale data computation - jonbaer https://docs.mars-project.io/en/latest/ ====== silicaroach Is this intended as a competitor to Dask?
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Show HN: Webcam + Favicon = Face-icon - paulkaplan http://paulkaplan.me/Experiments/Favicon/favicon.html ====== steeve Nice idea, but in Chrome when you activate WebRTC, the favicon will blink with a "recording" icon, ruining the effect. ~~~ paulkaplan I don't think so, it works fine for me. ~~~ cleverjake Im seei...
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FirePython: Firebug for Python - bdotdub http://github.com/darwin/firepython/tree/master ====== tlrobinson Why does it need to be a Firebug plugin? If it were just JavaScript it could work in any browser. ~~~ Erwin It's mostly about sending additional headers with the response which your Firebug-plugin plugin inter...
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Show HN: Concurrent Wifi Users - jftuga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YnGlV0MnFg ====== jftuga This shows wifi user locations throughout a day with each room having one AP. Devices consists of laptops, tablets and phones using various 802.11 wireless standards. Data was collected throughout the day from a pair of C...
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Coverity Scan Update - fcambus https://community.synopsys.com/s/article/Coverity-Scan-Update ====== danielhochman Coverity Scan regularly goes down for hours or days. In February of 2018 it was down for over a month with no word or ETA on when it would be fixed. I hadn't thought about it since then (we discontinued u...
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Resource Revocation in Apache Mesos (2012) [pdf] - ch http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs262a-F12/projects/reports/project9_report_ver4.pdf ====== haosdent This looks like inverse offer in Mesos [https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/10/07/mesos-inverse- offers/](https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/10/07/mesos-inv...
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Your Résumé Won't Get You Hired - tghw http://hicks-wright.net/blog/your-resume-wont-get-you-hired/ ====== jusob In my experience in hiring, this is the opposite: we don't get may cover letters (if any), and never require one. There are not too many reason a candidate wants the job: more money, bad work environment at...
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Ask HN: How much equity for first employee? - Murkin Hey guys,<p>Was wondering if there are any rules of thumb for equity share of first employee(s).<p>Our specific scenario:<p><pre><code> Two founders with track record (sold companies in the past). Have great connections. Already raised seed money. </code></pr...
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How to learn anything you need about medium in 7 minutes - despinaexad https://medium.com/@Xrysomalloysa/how-to-learn-anything-you-need-about-medium-in-7-minutes-c25e9ebe30fc ====== masonic This article is perfectly representative of _Medium_ content. ~~~ grzm Apparently the author (based on the username and author n...
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Debian admins demote developer Norbert Preining for using wrong gender pronoun - karlschlosser https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.html ====== karlschlosser The amount of unnecessary drama this has created is astonishing. Ian Jackson even deemed it necessary to start a public call for reports on P...
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What programming languages do mathematicians use? - KonaB http://mathoverflow.net/questions/11084/what-programming-languages-do-mathematicians-use ====== jimfl Statisticians commonly use SPlus or R. Applied mathematicians use some flavor of Fortran, in part because of numerical libraries available in that language. ...
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When Mummies Were the Life of the Party (2015) - Thevet http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/when-mummies-were-the-life-of-the-party ====== pluteoid You don't have to travel back in time, as the article suggests, to find societies where the dead are accorded a physical presence among the livin...
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Forget Money, This Startup Wants You to Invest Time - exolymph http://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/crowdraising-crowdfunding-time.html ====== ccvannorman Login or sign up to view article? I clicked the HN "web" link but it's still login-walled. ~~~ exolymph It shouldn't be, that's weird. Can you try again and let me know w...
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World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency - X4 http://phys.org/news/2013-09-world-solar-cell-efficiency.html ====== TheLegace "These solar cells are used in concentrator photovoltaics (CPV), a technology which achieves more than twice the efficiency of conventional PV power plants in sun-rich locations. The terres...
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If Earth Was 50% Larger, We Might Be Stuck Here - sjcsjc https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/07/06/if_earth_was_50_larger_we_might_be_stuck_here.html ====== rthomas6 How close are we to a feasible space elevator? Once we have something that can withstand the forces involved, we can just ride up to space for a f...
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Meet DARPA's Humanoid Robot - wikiburner http://www.fastcompany.com/3014203/fast-feed/meet-darpas-humanoid-robot-that-could-someday-save-you-from-a-crumbling-building ====== hedonist Or could be used to "humanely" incapacitate your daughter if she gets mixed up in the wrong kind of campus protest, not too far down t...
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Why there's nothing quite like iPhone - k-mcgrady http://www.apple.com/iphone/why-theres-iphone/ ====== imd23 The storytelling, the design and the animations are just sick.
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Launching Your First App (from someone who has) - ryno2019 http://sixrevisions.com/tips/launching-your-first-app/ ====== melling Getting the word out seems to be the hardest part. Articles typically scroll through HN so fast that it doesn't really help, plus it's probably not the audience for many apps. Reddit has s...
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Someone Stole Sherlock's 300,000 Likes - veb http://spottedsun.com/someone-stole-sherlocks-300000-likes/ ====== goodside The moral of the story here is that you shouldn't invest your time and emotional energy into things that actually belong to other people. You didn't own a website here. You didn't write code, you d...
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Remotely installing Debian using a web browser - known http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/WebInstaller/ ====== mseebach Hmm, I see a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue.. How do you configure the IP address if there's no monitor or input devices? Most colocated sites I've worked with requires static IPs. Perhaps it c...
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Tell HN: Obscurity is a valid security layer in your defense strategy - DyslexicAtheist ====== ReptileMan as long as you don't count on it.
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Philadelphia passes a law banning “cashless” retail stores - zymhan https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/sorry-amazon-philadelphia-bans-cashless-stores/ ====== el_duderino Yesterday's discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328547](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328547)
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Why the Motorola Android is a sure-fire hit - PatrickMorrell http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4335459.html?nav=RSS20&src=syn&dom=yah_buzz&mag=pop ====== haseman No such thing as a sure-fire hit, especially in the mobile world. Verizon's Droid looks like the best Android phone to date, but that won'...
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Say Hello to the New WordPress Editor - gmays https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ ====== benbristow I enjoy how the article is actually displayed using the editor. No better way of showing technology by showing it actually working! ------ nailer I'm really enjoying these minimal editors - Ghost has a great one too. It's...
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HackThis CTF 2013 - BoomBass http://www.hackthis.co.uk/ctf ====== BoomBass This is great little series of levels which I am currently working my way through. It appears there will be prizes awarded so it's worth having a go.
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Luna visual programming language beta release - kryptiskt http://www.luna-lang.org/# ====== cs702 Duplicate: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163769](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163769) ------ sytelus I'm looking for visual language that does not require ability to read (except, say, knowing numbers...
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Fine grain Cross-VM Attacks on Xen and VMware are possible - pronoiac http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/248 ====== p4bl0 It is not the first time that the possibility of Cross-VM side-channel attacks is shown. Previous paper on the subject: \- Flush+Reload: a High Resolution, Low Noise, L3 Cache Side-Channel Attack [http...
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MI6 (SIS) Is Developing a Node.js, Angular, NoSQL, Hadoop System on Cloudera - haser_au https://recruitmentservices.applicationtrack.com/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-2/brand-2/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/5/opp/495-Software-Specialists-and-Support-Roles-Ref-495/en-GB ====== john42 5 buzzwords in a row, that's a bingo! :) ...
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Newspaper moves into coffee shop, invites citizens to contribute. - larrik http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/12/02/news/doc4cf7892cbcf12181311203.txt?viewmode=fullstory ====== larrik To summarize, they are moving to a new office that is a coffee shop (complete with free wifi), library, and news room. Peop...
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Airline industry divided over passenger electronics - jrnkntl http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/turning-off-iphone-critical-to-pilots-citing-interference.html ====== DoubleMalt So there are less than 100 reports of interference of radio devices with planes. And then there is the study where 30% of the people sa...
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How to Choose a Profitable Niche - trevmckendrick http://www.trevormckendrick.com/how-to-choose-a-profitable-niche/ ====== BigBalli Hey Trevor, great second post. I agree with most of what you say but have to point out that you left out a big technique: search trends. what you describe is finding apps that are alre...
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Coming soon: A new site for fully free collaboration - eatonphil https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration ====== eatonphil Their actual evaluation (including Gitea, Pagure, and Sourcehut) is here [0]. [0] [https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation](https://li...
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Show HN: Faqt – a lightweight, knowledge base (now for teams) - siavosh https://faqt.co/ ====== siavosh Co-founder here: we posted an individual version of Faqt on HN about a year ago, and we got a lot of great feedback. Chief among them was a collaborative version of the app. After a whole bunch of iterations and a f...
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Vampiric Charger: Any Source to 5VDC - crankylinuxuser https://hackaday.com/2018/07/29/vampire-charger-is-a-rugged-anything-to-5vdc-converter/ ====== zaarn That's quite an interesting project. I've recently discovered the OKI 78SR. It handles about 1.5A of power at 5V and accepts a very wide input range from 7 to 36 ...
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Do Social Rights Affect Social Outcomes? - barry-cotter https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12421 ====== barry-cotter > While the United Nations and NGOs are pushing for global judicialization of > economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCRs), little is known of their > consequences. We provide evide...
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‘Serial’: inside a podcast phenomenon - antr http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/aeb8d37c-7af1-11e4-8646-00144feabdc0.html ====== freshhawk Who would complain about a new outlet for long form investigative journalism that's actually massively popular? This podcast is as great as the commentaries/communities that treat it l...
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Reflections of an “Old” Programmer - speckz http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2016/reflections-of-an-old-programmer.php ====== delinka I'm a bit older than the author. Every time I feel like I'm "out of touch" with the hip new thing, I take a weekend to look into it. I tend to discover that the core principles are the...
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Show HN: DocHUB – An easy way to create dynamic project docs with Markdown - knutmartin https://restdb.io/templates/dochub-markdown ====== srpeck Interesting. I had not seen FlatDoc ([http://ricostacruz.com/flatdoc/](http://ricostacruz.com/flatdoc/)) before. Similar purpose to what I was aiming for with Benchpress CMS...
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Ask HN: HN'ers / startup scene in Chicago? - mindcrime I'm going to be staying in Chicago for a good portion of the new few months.... while I'm here, I'd love to meet any Chicago based fellow HN'ers, as well as getting to know the local startup scene. If anybody would like to meet for a drink, I'll definitely buy ...
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Vuvuzela: private messaging system that protects metadata - 0xmohit https://vuvuzela.io/ ====== mi100hael > To hide metadata, messages are routed through multiple servers, and each > server adds noise. This makes the metadata incomprehensible, even to > powerful nation-state adversaries. I'm interested to learn more ...
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Game of War: Fire Age Translates Players’ Chat - solarmist http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/arts/video-games/game-of-war-fire-age-translates-players-chat.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& ====== solarmist This game is launching on the 24th.
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Thoughts on Ada and Language Technology in Our Times (2012) [pdf] - plumeria http://www.ada2012.org/files/Thoughts_on_Ada.pdf ====== Animats I received the green postcard announcing that "Ada is Green", meaning that of the four candidates for Ada, the Green design had won. That was a long time ago. The big problem in...
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Historical Computers in Japan - mmoez http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/index.html ====== ArtWomb Amazing historical resource. Interesting how intimately the evolution of Supercomputing was tied to Japan's Aerospace Lab, precursor to JAXA. We often think of automobiles, not airplanes, when we think of Japanese indu...
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Startups in Myanmar - wyclif http://www.economist.com/news/business/21647318-startup-culture-germinates-unlikely-place-land-temples-and-tech ====== rmm As someone who is in the mining (ore not data) industry, the changes I have seen in Myanmar in the past 2-3 years is remarkable. I have been over with a variety of mi...
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What are the most challenging problems in the world today? - jayamohan What are the biggest problems of our society today?<p>Insofar as mathematics or natural sciences are concerned, one can easily identify unsolved problems. But, what about social sciences and our daily life? The answers may remain rather subjective ...
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Ask HN: What landing page do you love? - richardreeze I saw this question today on Indie Hackers and thought it would be interesting to ask the HN community.<p>For me, the answer would be Stripe Atlas (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;atlas) ====== theclaw [https://www.lingscars.com/](https://www.lingscars.com/) \- y...
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Dear ICO, Sue Us - colinscape http://nocookielaw.com/ ====== gavinlynch Every time I hear this cookie debate, I feel I must be missing something. If you don't want to be tracked. TURN. COOKIES. OFF. There is a reason all web browsers come with per-domain cookies policies. We don't need a cookie law. We need some c...
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Show HN: DebView, a platform for sane and constructive debates - martincastin http://debview.eu ====== martincastin Debates on social networks and on the net in general are often getting unconstructive and overwhelmed by trolls. That's too bad because the internet could be a great tool to bring people together to dis...
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Web Startups with a subscription based business model - psaccounts Are there any founders here who are building Web Startups with a business model to sell subscriptions (or at least a free+premium model and not an advertising driven business model)?<p>* How difficult was is to acquire paying customers? * What type o...
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Ask HN: How are the new Google Drive/Dropbox plans so cheap? - christiangenco Several months ago, Dropbox dropped their price[1] to $10&#x2F;month for 1 TB, matching Google Drive[2].<p>But cloud storage providers charge a multiplier more than this:<p>* S3[3] is $0.0220 per GB at scale for reduced redundancy, or $22.53...
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The Hard Truth About Socialism (Stefan Molyneux) - GyYZTfWBfQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RNZ2LjpEl4 ====== cphoover Why is this on hacker news? ~~~ GyYZTfWBfQw For the same reason any other submissions concerning political philosophy, economics, etc. are. Quite many of those "off-topic" submissions climbed up...
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The surprising and continuing influence of Swami Vivekananda (2012) - signa11 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303404704577305581227233656 ====== duncancarroll If you're interested in someone who both loves Yoga & meditation, and tends toward a rational bent, you should also check out Gopi Krishna. ...
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Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here's how we should solve it - maartenba http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2014/04/11/Building-NET-projects-is-a-world-of-pain-and-heres-how-we-should-solve-it.aspx ====== jeswin Building .Net projects cannot really be solved in a way that compares well with nix syste...
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MVC Podcast Episode 13: Tech Mentorship; MS Vis Studio; Bitcoin; Gigster; More - martystepp http://mvc-the-podcast.github.io/2015/12/22/episode-13-secret-santas-secret-identities-mentorship.html ====== martystepp MVC Podcast Episode 13 is up! This is a geek podcast where a university CS instructor (Marty) and a develo...
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Ask HN: Projects and applications for e-ink displays - jeanlucas What are some interesting projects and applications for e-ink displays? ====== Artemix \- Ebook-like reading tools \- Watches, low-power embedded displays \- Low-cost screens
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LivingSocial Financials: $2.9 Billion Valuation, $50M In Revenue Per Month - McKittrick http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/15/livingsocial-financials-exposed-2-9-billion-valuation-50-million-in-revenue-per-month/ ====== rebelidealist How come news media never talk about profits when it comes to tech startups? Profits shoul...
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Ask HN: How do you do off-site backups? - jkamdjou What services or tools do you use for automating and securely backing up your personal and work systems? ====== benologist I use Synology Drive, a program like Dropbox, all my work is in that and it backs up to my NAS and that backs up to Dropbox. ~~~ mister_hn +1 me...
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Instagram’s founder, a marketer who learned to code at night - ra5cal http://thenextweb.com/2012/04/10/instagrams-ceo-had-no-formal-programming-training-hes-a-marketer-who-learned-to-code-by-night/ ====== louhong This is very misleading - his Quora answer (below) means that been involved (if at a limited capacity) wit...
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GCE vs. AWS: Why You Should Never Use Amazon - ayberk https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/gce-vs-aws-in-2016-why-you-should-never-use-amazon/ ====== sudosteph I'm always extra-skeptical about devs who choose to use click-baity titles to explain why a widely used piece infrastructure is useless. The merits and d...
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Lessons of the McAfee False Positive Fiasco - there http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363018,00.asp ====== hga Who tests the testers? According to Wikipedia, XP is the most widely used OS and SP3 shipped two years ago. It's pretty unforgivable not to test against this configuration, although as I read it XP SP...
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Roundup may cause half of all children to have autism by 2025 (2014) - maxwell https://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mit-researcher-glyphosate-herbicide-will-cause-half-of-all-children-to-have-autism-by-2025/ ====== jareds The link should be changed to the following. [https://www.snopes.com/fact- check/glyphosatan/](https...
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Performance in Factor, Java, and Clojure - prospero http://ideolalia.com/performance-in-clojure-and-factor ====== chrisduesing Clojure "beating" Java performance seems like an odd claim, since they both compile to the same thing. Doesn't that simply imply the approach/algorithm is better? ~~~ prospero The differenc...
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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (2003) - hboon http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html ====== xefer I get the same feeling about Google Glass that I got from Segway: cool technology, but who the heck is going to actually use it? ~~~ sajid I never understood what problem the Segway was supposed to solve. Same w...
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Patch for critical privilege escalation flaw in Kubernetes - rapathak https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/kubernetes-announce/GVllWCg6L88 ====== coleca Shame they aren't updating anything older than 1.10. 1.09 was released just a year ago. The commercial K8S vendors seem to be doing the patch all the way back. ...
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[Update] Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account - jpadvo Yesterday afternoon I posted about the disaster that happened to my Facebook account: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2256150<p>Someone at Facebook responded extremely quickly -- yesterday evening they updated documentation (...
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When Will the Last Line of Code Be Written? - josh_carterPDX http://blog.brightwork.io/when-will-the-last-ever-line-of-code-be-written/ ====== RyanCavanaugh As systems evolve into higher levels of abstraction, things that we used to consider to be "code" become "data" instead. For example, in 1950, you would write a ...
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.in ccTLD domain name list - over 600k domains listed - hughesey http://viewdns.info/data/?yin ====== sp332 So?
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The Fed is Now Pumping $200 Billion Per Month - chailatte http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fed-is-now-pumping-200-billion-per-month-2011-4 ====== tnt128 I have trouble understanding the term 'adjusted US Monetary Base', is it m0, m1, or m2?
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Sharethebus becomes Bus.com and raises $5M for event shuttle management - mstats https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/sharethebus-becomes-bus-com-and-raises-5m-for-event-shuttle-management/ ====== loceng I personally feel they should keep the sharethebus.com brand. The opening of the TechCrunch article states "It’s actu...
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Google gets patent for software that can identify any object on the planet - rohit89 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2195722/Indexing-world-Google-receives-software-means-intelligently-identify-object-planet.html ====== dragonbonheur In how many ways can someone implement a multi-layer perceptron or o...
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Ask HN: How did you get past the analysis paralysis for startup ideas? - gyani95 A few friends and I have been talking about doing a startup as far as I can remember. After University all of us took jobs and now we feel fairly comfortable to start a business&#x2F;something on the side. Only problem : Can&#x27;t decide...
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Ask HN: Social commerce with a hyper-local spin. www.reppio.com - man_bear_pig It&#x27;s my first startup to launch. Would love to get HN&#x27;s feedback.<p>www.reppio.com ====== LA_livin112 love this idea- it is a hard one to execute. i like the direction that you took with this though- giving each of the cities a ...
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Europe’s Economic Suicide - motti_s http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/opinion/krugman-europes-economic-suicide.html?_r=2 ====== dimitar Yes! A Paul Krugman column. I think its worthwhile for anyone to try to understand his economic assertions on the crisis. The most important part is understanding what is aggregate d...
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Polyisocyanurate#Fire_risk - delhanty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyisocyanurate#Fire_risk ====== delhanty I submitted this in relation to the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, London 2 days ago. Also relevant is the article referenced by Wikipedia: [http://www.probyn-miers.com/perspective/2016/02/fire- risks-f...]...
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W/ Fedoracoin: Dedicated payment platform for Fedoracoin restores faith in coin - withfedoraco_in https://pay.withfedoraco.in/ ====== theklub Join us on drevil.com and discuss your app!
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Henrietta Lacks - i_feel_great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks ====== i_feel_great I have worked with the HeLa cell line, but I never knew where it came from or what HeLa stood for.
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The (dis)information mercenaries now controlling Trump’s databases - mxfh https://medium.com/@pdehaye/the-dis-information-mercenaries-now-controlling-trumps-databases-4f6a20d4f3e7#.nqbrob3xs ====== Lintaris They expand from having third-world customers to having first-world customers.
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Alexa Voice Service Integration for AWS IoT Core - nonbirithm https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/iot/introducing-alexa-voice-service-integration-for-aws-iot-core/ ====== tlrobinson Somewhat related project I came across recently, Almond "The Open, Privacy- Preserving Virtual Assistant": [https://almond.stanford.edu/](htt...
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Jeff Bezos on the Founding of Amazon (1998) - _pius http://web.archive.org/web/20081120140522/http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/98/98-07bezos-speech.html ====== mdaniel What an interesting coincidence, the Now I Know newsletter this morning was about a neat Bezos story and contained a link to this talk: [http://...
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The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil - blasdel http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html ====== wglb Great story, particularly in regard to the balance required to make the whole thing work, and to push the oil companies to innovate. It also brings to mind the essay "There are no Mom and Pop O...
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Little Stories Told with Numbers - hypertexthero https://github.com/postlight/account ====== hypertexthero My favorite line in the documentation: > Paragraphs were a wasteful orthographic indulgence by lazy monks and we > don’t allow them here.
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HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive - Amorymeltzer http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/hgst-releases-helium-filled-10tb-hard-drive-seagate-twiddles-shingled-fingers/ ====== rsync As a provider of cloud storage (who actually owns the infrastructure) this is both exciting an...
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Religious Believers Are Nicer Say Researchers - nreece http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/gods-truth-believers-are-nicer-20110908-1jzrl.html ====== getonit It's easy to be nice when the world you live in is warm and fluffy.
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