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Ask HN: What blogging platform do you use for your startup? - capex I am deciding between using Wordpress, Octopress or something else. Would love to have HN readers' thoughts on this. ====== thenomad Hosted Wordpress. Wordpress on a self-hosted server is a world of pain unless you're prepared to spend signifi...
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Theoretical Computer Science for the Working Category Theorist [pdf] - aq3cn https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03090 ====== mathgenius The thing is, any "working category theorist" can see the objects and morphisms of a category from a mile away and don't really need these things pointed out. This paper seems to be a fairly ...
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Show HN: Amazon.co.uk Live Search (beta) - wintorez http://quickriver.herokuapp.com/ ====== mjking Nice job! Do you have this on github? I'd love to use this code on a similar movie search project.
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Social Skydiving Days 18-20: Winners are Made of Fail - darkxanthos http://socialskydivingwithjustin.posterous.com/social-skydiving-days-18-20-winners-are-made ====== darkxanthos Glad to see this is getting a good response. This is a rough draft of a personal experience essay I wrote for my English class. It's got p...
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Ask HN: Creating a Hosted Version of an MIT Licensed, Open Source App? - aantix I&#x27;ve found an open source app on Github that solves a specific development problem that I had really, really well. It&#x27;s MIT licensed.<p>The author has been working on it for over a year and a half.<p>I would like to start a busi...
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Inception explained with the OS X Finder - myusuf3 http://vimeo.com/23066787 ====== mthomas I have to say inception wasn't too difficult to understand. I still don't understand Primer: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)> though. ------ sheraz The weirdest thing is that I know this guy. And I thought, "Oh, ...
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Why you shouldn't listen to “hasn’t someone done that already?” - rgrieselhuber http://firewatching.com/ambient/2008/06/06/products-that-wouldnt-exist-if-their-creators-listened-to-hasnt-someone-done-that-already/ ====== geebee This blog reminds me of why I've overlooked a lot of new technologies. Most people miss t...
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Show HN: Google "hacker news", see one user's suggestion implemented. - SandB0x http://imgur.com/nR60Y.png made me chuckle at least. Has it always been like this, or was it in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492686 ? ====== devmonk Avatars and dancing hamsters are in-progress, I assume.
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American Airlines International 'Economy' Class - rolld10 http://www.businessinsider.com/american-airlines-international-economy-class-2013-1?op=1#ixzz2JIlmxu88 ====== pedalpete This person clearly hasn't traveled international in a long time and therefore had very low expectations. International flights over a certa...
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Inside the Chinese Bitcoin Mine That's Making $1.5M a Month - stupandaus http://motherboard.vice.com/read/chinas-biggest-secret-bitcoin-mine ====== ceallen Why use the profits from October in the headline of an article published in February? The cost of bitcoins has nearly halved in the meanwhile. Hope they had a he...
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Ask HN: Best program ideas/api to learn python - grumps So let me preface this with, I know there's lots of resources for learning code. That's not the issue. I have the basics but I need to start writing applications/scripts/programs to learn faster. What I'm asking for, is there an API or some basic programs tha...
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“Mindless Eating,” or how to send an entire life of research into question - Sindisil https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/the-peer-reviewed-saga-of-mindless-eating-mindless-research-is-bad-too/ ====== tryitnow Tragically, I bet this is all too common. Wansink's mistake was blogging about it. This emblematic of a ...
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B&N prepping new tablet with 'revolutionary screen technology' - bane http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33198_7-57473877-286/b-n-prepping-new-tablet-with-revolutionary-screen-technology/?tag=postrtcol;FD.posts ====== Toshio We certainly hope it will be powered by a Linux kernel.
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Ask HN: Is it legal to attack your own honeypot if it's hosted on AWS? - TempaTaccount I&#x27;m a security researcher and digital forensics student.<p>I don&#x27;t want myself or my colleagues&#x2F;peers to get involved in any legal troubles when launching attacks against my own honeypot on AWS for testing purposes....
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Denmark 'happiest' country in the world - terpua http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/07/02/nations.happiness/index.html?eref=rss_topstories ====== jcl I wish the scientists would make up their minds. I was all ready to move to Iceland: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193619>
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Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3 - jedliu http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/08/26/porn-collection-put-people-off-upgrading-to-firefox-3/ ====== michael_dorfman There's a nice object lesson here about fully understanding the impact of a system change on your users. Making things "better" for them...
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Quantum mechanics used for better random numbers - quazar https://newatlas.com/quantum-random-numbers/54184/ ====== nabla9 Another example of physicists selling their basic research by linking it to cryptography in a way that makes no sense. Generating quantum random numbers is not solving any real cryptographic probl...
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Sniffing (and decrypting) GSM [pdf] - biafra http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/attachments/1783_101228.27C3.GSM-Sniffing.Nohl_Munaut.pdf ====== syaz1 It looks like sniffing GSM is much simpler than I thought, I had no idea! The only thing stopping it to be more common is probably the need of hardware...
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Ask HN: Did working at a large company, help you become a better entrepreneur? - adamwdraper ====== Mz I worked at a large company and they were very competent at some things and that really helped teach me a lot of things by osmosis that I would not have otherwise been exposed to. They were marketing geniuses and that...
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Firebase Crashlytics graduates from beta - kuomaple https://firebase.googleblog.com/2018/03/firebase-crashlytics-graduates-from-beta.html ====== welanes Firestore next please. For the 'indie' developer, Firebase is a gift. By way of example, I (re)started building an app that tracks anomalies in cryptocurrency volume...
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Tech Billionaires Plotting Doomsday Escape to Bunkers in New Zealand - petethomas https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers ====== theslurmmustflo Love the art!
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New SMB bug: How to crash Windows system with a 'link of death' - wyldfire https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/04/windows_flaw_adds_crashing_as_a_service/ ====== wyldfire Specifics on the vulnerability [1], proof-of-concept [2]. [1] [https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/867968](https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/867968) [...
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Why save a language? - gpvos http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/why-save-a-language.html ====== austerity As the man in the back row, I am not convinced. He reduces the need to save languages to the need to save cultures and leaves it at that, implicitly assuming the latter to be an axiom. To me it's eve...
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WebKit now supports CSS Variables - nickb http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0230.html ====== makecheck I have definitely thought about the _convenience_ of variables before, but it isn't good to bloat CSS itself with them. The spec's examples like "CorporateLogoBGColor" could be handled by a simp...
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Forget the Courts — Apple May Fight Mac Clones With Tech - edw519 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2008/04/apple_psystar ====== pius If any part of the Leopard EFI has a component that can be construed to be a security measure to prevent the software from use on unauthorized hardware, Apple has a DMCA case. And...
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Amazon.com just closed my seller account. No warning, no details. - wizoftechusa http://thetechnologyavenue.blogspot.com/2012/11/amazoncom-just-closed-my-seller-account.html ====== lifeguard email jeff@amazon.com is fastest way I know to get a response
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Federal appeals court strikes death blow to privacy in phone location info case - JBiserkov https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/graham-enbanc ====== tomohawk If private companies are going to collect and store this information, of course other parties are going to try to get at it. Whether it's law enforcement, some...
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Report a Bug - gtzi http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/07/help-the-community-report-browser-bugs/ ====== eykanal This article is kind of confused; it's talking about two separate things. 1) __Report bugs. __Yes, do that... do that a lot. Everyone benefits, and it doesn't take you a lot of time. 2) __Exhaus...
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Erbix: Server-side JavaScript Platform (with JS AppMarket) - vladd http://www.erbix.com/ ====== jhrobert The AppJets people were definitely on something. So it is nice to see that the idea survives. I personally go the nodejs way, the asynchronous way, but that's because I need raw metal level performance. The even...
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Uber reveals plans for flying taxi to bypass road traffic congestion - seek3r00 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/07/uber-reveals-plans-for-flying-taxi-to-bypass-road-traffic-congestion ====== dotcoma When will the bullshitting stop? ~~~ seek3r00 When <del>pigs</del> Uber drivers fly
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Mongoid stable release: 4.0.0 - _Soulou https://github.com/mongoid/mongoid/commit/50b633c8baf2fa467e8c36b18a013a2cd50e0454 ====== _Soulou And more important: [https://github.com/mongoid/mongoid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/mongoid/mongoid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
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Street Fighting Mathematics: The art of educated guessing - xtacy http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Mathematics.pdf ====== jimmyjim Previous discussions: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1548013> (many comments) <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1106846> (2 comments) <http://news.ycom...
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Announcing Bitly Enterprise 2.0 - DanielRibeiro http://blog.bitlyenterprise.com/post/16126692604/announcing-bitly-enterprise-2-0 ====== mohene1 nice interface
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Could Self-Driving Trucks Be Good for Truckers? - thisisit https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/uber-says-its-self-driving-trucks-will-be-good-for-truckers/551879/?single_page=true ====== BoiledCabbage Yeah this article is disappointing. It's an Uber puff piece. The author makes a bunch of contrived ...
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User Authentication with Rails and Backbone.js - waratuman http://42floors.com/blog/posts/user-authentication-with-rails-and-backbone-js ====== YuriNiyazov One of the fundamental difficulties of handling login with Backbone.js is that your regular site is usually served off HTTP, but you want to send credentials via H...
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Business analytics provider Profitably raises $1.1M - gsiener http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/21/profitably-funding-demo/ ====== gsiener And we're hiring: <http://profitably.com/jobs>
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Google Photos – Can I get out? - rubenv https://rocketeer.be/blog/2015/05/google-photos/ ====== davb Actually, there is a setting in Google Photos (at least the web interface) which lets you choose between "High quality" and "Original" (Menu -> Settings). "High quality" recompresses large files, but gives you unlimit...
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The life of a telecommuter - redgirlsays http://redgirlsays.com/blog/2010/11/the-life-of-a-telecommuter/ ====== ben1040 Unlike the author, when I was telecommuting I was never able to be effective while working in my pajamas. When I would wake up I'd go down the hall to the office and read the first 5-10 new mails ...
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How Evil Is Tech? - monsieurpng https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/opinion/how-evil-is-tech.html ====== mephitix My humble, personal opinion that I have been reluctant to share: I am embarrassed by what has become of some parts of the industry I love. For as much as Silicon Valley professes that it wants to "make the...
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The 2nd amendment allows gun control. Scalia didn't - dangjc http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-second-amendment-is-a-gun-control-amendment ====== masonic Gun control ends gun violence as surely an (sic) antibiotics end bacterial infections That's utterly false. There's not even a strong _c...
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Homeland Security spending marked by waste, lack of oversight - anigbrowl http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/articles/homelandsecuritymarkedbywastelackofoversight ====== giardini If this is so, can you imagine the amount of money wasted by the NSA? We can't see the NSA's budget, we can't audit the NSA, and w...
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SEC Proposes Ban on Magnetar-Like Deals - zoowar https://www.propublica.org/blog/item/sec-proposes-ban-on-magnetar-like-deals/ ====== ShawnJG these regulations are nothing new. After the crash at the beginning of the century regulations very similar to this were instituted. Even after they were lifted, no one but fina...
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How can List be faster than native arrays? (2018) - lioeters http://vindum.io/blog/how-can-list-be-faster-than-native-arrays/ ====== Lerc It seems notable that while map is mentioned there is no performance measurement shown for map. To me The proof of the pudding would be in map performance. In my spare time I have ...
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LearnSearch: User Curated Learning Feeds - hsikka https://learnsearch.xyz/ ====== hsikka Hey folks! I just spent the past few days building LearnSearch, a web app where you can share learning resources and upvote the ones that help you or are valuable in someway. I asked a lot of people what they wished they knew when...
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Ask HN: why QR reading capability isn't integrated to smartphones - Juha I find it surprising that even nowadays most smartphones don't seem to come with any way to read QR codes. You'll have to install an 3rd party app on all phones I have tested (vanilla android, iPhone, N9 most lately). Why is this?<p>Some factor...
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Why are Silicon Valley billionaires starving themselves? - Jerry2 https://theweek.com/articles/835226/why-are-silicon-valley-billionaires-starving-themselves ====== iron0013 Am I missing something, or does the author really not mention the strong body of evidence showing that calorie restriction is one of the only int...
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Docker Basics: A practical starters guide - timbutlerau https://www.conetix.com.au/blog/docker-basics-practical-starters-guide ====== chrisacree I use AWS for some projects, so I can boot up identical machines in a few minutes as needed from a script. What's the benefit of Docker for me? Easier time switching hardw...
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Future Of Technology And Education (Video) - sonier http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680776/watch-a-great-short-film-on-the-future-of-technology-and-education ====== diligentwarrior I was in elementary school in the mid-90s, and I remember being rewarded for working well with computers. I would have the chance to use a c...
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This genius map explains how everything in physics is connected - CarolineW http://www.sciencealert.com/this-genius-video-explains-everything-you-need-to-know-about-physics-in-8-minutes ====== espeed Direct links to the video and hi-res image by Dominic Walliman: Image: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08](ht...
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So you wanna be a freelancer? - iwarshak http://ianwarshak.posterous.com/working-as-a-freelancer ====== bradhe Excellent post. I did a stint as a freelancer for a while and this is on target for sure. I've been riding a cube for about 2 years now and I'm starting to get tired of it, though. On top of that I'd like ...
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SIP.js v0.8.0 Supports All Major Browsers and Renegotiation - wakamoleguy https://www.onsip.com/blog/sipjs-v0.8.0-supports-all-major-browsers-and-renegotiation ====== auvrw > The bulk of SIP.js no longer cares about the media and what it’s doing yes. this is important, even if only for testing. my [semi]current test...
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Super "Perigee Moon" to Rise Saturday - shawnee_ http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/ ====== Groxx Can I say "Super Perigee Moon Double Rainbow Rolling Bomber Special[1]" without repercussion? Because I really want to... [1]: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2BBl7_-4JA> ------...
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BeeLineReader – Now With Chrome and Firefox Plugins - gnicholas http://BeeLineReader.com ====== nn3 It's a cool idea, but it's imho really dumb to do something like that as a web service. It should be in the standard toolkit, like GTK. ~~~ gnicholas Great point—we're offering the browser plugins as a first step in ...
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Ballmer: Piracy costs Microsoft 95% of potential Chinese revenue - dschobel http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/05/ballmer-piracy-costs-microsoft-95-percent-of-potential-chinese-revenue.ars ====== nextparadigms Oh please. They could've done something about this years ago if they really wanted. I'm sure they'd...
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How I Start: Rust - fanf2 https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-rust-2020-03-15 ====== anurag In case it helps, Render ([https://render.com](https://render.com)) has first class support for Rust webapp hosting without needing Docker. And here's the Hello World URL for this tutorial! [https://rust-nix- helloworld...
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Move Over, Sustainable Travel. Regenerative Travel Has Arrived - jpm_sd https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/travel/travel-future-coronavirus-sustainable.html ====== iammru I don't buy it. If we ever go back to normal (eg COVID19 weakens and disappears or vaccines actually work), travel will continue to be driven by sup...
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Ask HN: Great startups with affiliate programs? - ryanwaggoner We're selling some ads on our blog but we don't want empty slots, so we're going to be using affiliate programs to fill any inventory we don't sell. We want to promote companies we know and trust, so if you have a product you're proud of and an affiliat...
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Pono Player – Neil Young and his music store - piqufoh http://www.ponomusic.com/ ====== projct Here's what Monty (of ogg vorbis fame) has to say about this: [http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil- young.html](http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html)
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Piano emulator in HTML5 - Mpdreamz http://mpdreamz.github.com/html5-piano/ ====== mikepurvis What about this requires canvas? Seems like it could be done very simply with just divs (and audio elements, of course). ------ kreddor Here is another amusing alternative made using youtube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Show HN: Loosely – Smart input masks for regexes - deckar01 ====== ko3us does this have a web link?
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How to Optimize Your Pandas Code - min2bro https://kanoki.org/2019/01/09/how-to-optimize-your-pandas-code/ ====== haihaibye His site blocks me as a bot, so posting here. Pandas str replace is almost certainly faster than Numba: [https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas- docs/stable/reference/api/p...](https://pandas.pydata....
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Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 - prophetjohn https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/google-to-slow-hiring-for-rest-of-2020-ceo-pichai-tells-staff ====== cletus So years ago this came up with Eric Schmidt, who was CEO of Google through the GFC. After 2007, Google had selective layoffs (probably not ...
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Deploying Tornado in production - icey http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2009/12/deploying-tornado-in-production.html ====== crad There is some sound information in this. I've been planning on writing about the the curve in using Tornado, as it is deceivingly simple. It does take diving into the code to really pump ...
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CNBC reporter shows how easy it is for stolen journalism to get ad $ - und3rth3iP https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/17/broken-internet-ad-system-makes-it-easy-to-earn-money-with-plagiarism.html ====== und3rth3iP Especially eye opening given the wave of recent media layoffs due to a lack of ad revenue.
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Show HN: Into-Docker – Never write another Dockerfile - xscys https://github.com/into-docker/into-docker ====== xscys I finally released my little Clojure/Docker/GraalVM CLI tool that makes use of special pre-packaged environments to enable minimal-configuration builds for common build tooling or frameworks. Check out...
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The Admiral of the String Theory Wars: still thinks string theory is a gory mess - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/the-admiral-of-the-string-theory-wars ====== ifdefdebug Read the "Admiral" himself commenting this article: [http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=7705](http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woi...
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Ask HN: I joined a big co, like the team, hate some policies, what should I do? - throwaway173205 I recently joined a big tech company. The work is interesting and the team seems skilled and well run. But the larger company has done some really sketchy things where they mislead users in the name of growth. They als...
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Is the Fed reading your tweets? - tpatke http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17265295 ====== trustfundbaby This is such an interesting article about how useful, mining social media data can be. Its a pity the headline is so link-baity and barely related to the content.
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Review HN: Google replacement, use other search engines along with Google - amitvjtimub Please review my project<p>Url: http://www.shodhel.com/<p>It replaces Google as default search engine, still allows you to access Google as usual.<p>Only thing is you can access other search engines by clicking on Back button.<p>...
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Apply to YC, TechStars and 500Startups simultanously? - 3zzy Although I prefer YC, but just in case I get rejected for whatever reason, is it okay and ethical to apply with other accelerators along with YC to increase my chances? Did anyone ever do that? ====== zaroth Of course you can apply to any of these you want...
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INTERCAL On Interstates - ioidev http://www.intercaloninterstates.org/ ====== smoyer I wanted this to be real so bad!
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Now Available – Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Java 2.0 - janober https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-developer-preview-of-aws-sdk-for-java-2-0/ ====== cle > In version 2.0, all POJOs are immutable and must be created through a > builder. I appreciate the immutable-by-default conventions. But conversely,...
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The F# Path to Relaxation [video] - mightybyte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-D6W7EA8gw ====== enricosada F# is amazing. Computation expression and type provider are awesome features, and the language itself is really fun and easy to write/refactor/understand (this mean code work as expected at first run usually...
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Tech firms like Facebook must restrict data sent from EU to US, court rules - boshomi https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/16/tech-firms-like-facebook-must-restrict-data-sent-from-eu-to-us-court-rules ====== boshomi EU/US “privacy shield” deal is fallen.
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Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre - joeyespo https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/24/survival-of-the-mediocre-mediocre/ ====== wnissen This explained a lot about evolution and government that previously seemed paradoxical to me.
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There are 2,373 squirrels in Central Park. I know because I helped count them - duxup https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/08/nyregion/central-park-squirrel-census.html ====== pasttense01 Central Park has 843 acres. That means there are an average of 2.8 squirrels/acre. That seems low. I think they probably mis...
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VideoGamesPlus.ca hacked, 21,000 users' details stolen - 1880 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-18-videogamesplus-ca-hacked-21-000-users-details-stolen ====== 1880 It looks like they were not hacked exactly. They just left some backups in the open: [http://www.google.com/search?q=site:videogamesplus.ca+inurl...
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One IDE to Rule them All? - thelonecabbage http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/140264/one-ide-to-rule-them-all ====== dasil003 I can accept that there are valid reasons to do this, but I couldn't work in a shop like that. The bottom line is I invest in my tools, and a big part of my career development is ...
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Ask HN: iPhone 5 or Galaxy S4? - bgar Looking for an upgrade, and after reading and watching a lot of comparisons, I still think it's very close between the two. Which one do you prefer and why? ====== yareally If you want simplicity and are already invested in the ecosystem with other products and such, you may pre...
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Scandalous weird old things about the C preprocessor (2015) - fanf2 https://blog.robertelder.org/7-weird-old-things-about-the-c-preprocessor/ ====== cafard Hmm. The _Intermediate Greek Lexicon_ gives the original meaning of "skandalon" as "a trap or a snare laid for an enemy": [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text...
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Amazon sellers can associate your personal info to bad reviews - jimmyrcom http://www.amazon.com/review/R5FPKAO3QSMZZ/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm got a home phone call telling me seller didn't like the bad review of a bathroom scale, see vid review for audio ====== jimmyrcom got a home phone call telling me seller didn't like...
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Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks - ValentineC https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/11/health/singapore-sugar-drink-ads-intl-hnk-scli/index.html ====== mark_l_watson Usually I am for freedom to do anything you want as long as it does not impact other people. I am OK though with banning ads for...
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Smartly discover your perfect match. No mindless swiping. – Cinder - CinderAmour Hi HN,<p>We are Cinder, a brand-new online service helping people find their perfect match smartly. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cinder-ella.herokuapp.com<p>Cinder believes everyone deserves a serious relationship. Therefore, people receive one perf...
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Bad SSL - jaytaylor https://badssl.com ====== jaytaylor Src code: [https://github.com/lgarron/badssl.com](https://github.com/lgarron/badssl.com) Credit to moviuro for sharing @ [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10186516](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10186516)
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China Bans Livestreaming - owens99 http://mashable.com/2017/06/23/china-bans-livestreaming/?from=groupmessage#ieH.shUHUqqR ====== Animats Better coverage from the South China Morning Post.[1] (SCMP, which is based in Hong Kong, isn't as independent as it used to be be, but they do have actual reporters gathering news....
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Simple Unix tools in Haskell - gurraman http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Simple_unix_tools ====== dfc For all those times when you don't have coreutils installed but you have ghc6/ghc7 installed. ~~~ dons Stay prepared! ------ gabebw This is actually pretty helpful, in that my approach to programming in a new langua...
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D.O.J. Loses Lindsey Graham in Encryption Fight - jeo1234 https://www.districtsentinel.com/doj-loses-lindsey-graham-encryption-fight/ ====== 100pctremote The article suggests Graham's views on "digital privacy" are evolving, yet his opposition seems to have little to do with the issue of privacy.
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Ask HN: Undersea Data Cables (documentaries, resources) - iwwr Looking at the world's growing submarine cable infrastructure:<p>http://eu-ix.equinix.com/joomladev/images/repository/Equinix_TGMap_MTS_15.pdf<p>I can't help but wonder if there have been any documentaries or pop-sci articles about this.<p>Some places li...
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Instagram's Buyout: No Bubble to See Here - apress http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-baio-instagram-trend/all/1 ====== apress Some actual data to assess. By several measures, Instagram no more expensive than 30-odd other similar acquisitions, some of which worked out great (Paypal, YouTube, Mint.com), oth...
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Show HN: Create your own Trump animation - 100-xyz https://toonclip.com/editor3?key1=5610c2d35a ====== 100-xyz Sorry the correct link is. Not sure how to change the submission now. [https://toonclip.com/fork?key1=5610c2d35a](https://toonclip.com/fork?key1=5610c2d35a) ------ 100-xyz Not sure, if this is acceptable he...
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From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations - DarkContinent https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/models-galaxies-atoms-simple-ai-shortcuts-speed-simulations-billions-times ====== dukoid For some reason this reminds me of the famous xerox copier where the compression algorithm would sw...
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How I built my own browser - skilled https://kilianvalkhof.com/2020/design/how-i-built-my-own-browser/ ====== kragen "How I built my own browser, starting with nothing but a browser" Next up: how I painted my own Impressionist masterpiece, starting with nothing but a high-resolution camera, access to a museum, and an...
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French: The Most Productive People In The World - gusi http://www.businessinsider.com/are-the-french-the-most-productive-people-in-the-world-2009-8 Winning is not about working hard. It's about working smart... and less. ====== forgingahead While I enjoy a good yarn as much as the next guy, the logic doesn't follow. ...
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Dictionary of Obscure Startup Terms - robertjmoore http://blog.rjmetrics.com/defined-startup-terms/ ====== itafroma This is pretty cool. A few terms that immediately came to mind but are missing from this list as of right now are "network effects", "lifecycle email", "CPM", and "angel". Not strictly startup related,...
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AMD Takes 10.4% CPU Share from Intel in Q2 2017 - vanburen http://wccftech.com/amd-takes-10-4-cpu-share-intel-q2-2017-largest-single-quarter-share-gain-history/ ====== taspeotis > It's important to note that because PassMark's market share data is based on > benchmark submissions it counts actual systems in use, rathe...
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Ipad based free-form shape detection - bosky101 http://www.avabodh.com/lekh ====== bosky101 Pretty impressive. interesting bits of the ipad app demo on youtube begin at 1m15secs <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvPLRRt79uo#t=1m15s>
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Announcing Rust Language Server Alpha Release - steveklabnik http://www.jonathanturner.org/2017/01/rls-alpha-release.html ====== kibwen Rust's IDE story is starting the year off with a bang. :) It's taken me until now to realize that the protocol is semi-standardized: [https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server- pro...
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Ask HN: Will there ever be an open OS for smart tv's? - dre85 Aside from being totally limited in most aspects, my smart tv recently announced it will be ending Skype support. I was planning on buying a webcam for it, but that clearly makes no sense anymore. I&#x27;m sure a lot of other people have though.<p>Will ther...
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Obama Wants Silicon Valley's Help to Fight Terror Online - bko http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-07/obama-wants-silicon-valley-s-help-as-terrorists-embrace-social ====== Albright So Obama (and Hillary Clinton) wants tech companies to weaken encryption and strengthen online surveillance techniques, but...
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Getting to Know Python 3.7- Data Classes, Async-Await and More - joeyespo https://blog.heroku.com/python37-dataclasses-async-await ====== abatilo Shameless plug: When 3.7 was first released, I created a library to use dataclasses and add some light type validation to them. The library grew and now also supports some ...
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