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Regularly skipping breakfast linked to increased risk of heart disease - open-source-ux https://www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/regularly-skipping-breakfast-linked-increased-risk-heart-disease-and-stroke/ ====== Starknaked I'd like to know how this factors into intermittent fasting as most people that do it just skip br...
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Green tea and Spirulina inhibit SARS-2 spike pseudotyped virus entry in vitro - abhayhegde https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.20.162701v1 ====== abhayhegde Further studies are required to understand the exact mechanism of viral inhibition. In summary, they have demonstrated that pseudo-typed virus is an i...
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Why we parted ways with Grammarly (and you should too) - jmedwards https://medium.com/kayako-engineering/why-we-parted-ways-with-grammarly-and-you-should-too-dea483bef823 ====== jgwhite I hope the post is fair. Let me know if it isn’t. Our goal is to explain the situation to our customers, and help make other teams aw...
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Can Humans Beat Google? New Search Engine Blekko Is a Great Concept, But ... - igravious http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/11/new-search-engine-blekko-is-a-great-concept-but/65517/ ====== scrrr The Google results for "vaccination" indeed are full of spam.. The idea is not bad. Google could add a "o...
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Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst privacy of any major browser - based2 https://winbuzzer.com/2020/03/17/researchers-say-microsoft-edges-telemetry-has-the-worst-privacy-of-any-major-browser-xcxwbn/ ====== jacquesm Worse than Chrome? That must have taken some doing then. Ah, here is the key in the article:...
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This place is not a place of honor - carbocation http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%20message%20to%2012,000%20a_d.htm ====== grzm Previous discussion a year ago (280 comments): [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871) Submitted a couple o...
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A 1,000-year-old road lost to time - MiriamWeiner http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181203-a-1000-year-old-road-lost-to-time ====== rayiner This writing is so pretentious. > As I trudged through the streets of Lucca on my first day, the sun shone hot > on my skin and the wind brushed my face. Without the protection o...
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Second Life land value, premium accounts decline - ilamont http://thestandard.com/news/2008/07/01/second-life-users-spending-more-time-world-are-they-paying ====== thorax Second Life recently substantially cut prices for their "new" island sales. I think it's likely the decreased land sales figures could be caused b...
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Properly configure Google Apps' Gmail and get rid of "via" - StavrosK http://www.stavros.io/posts/how-properly-configure-google-apps-email/ ====== joshfraser This is tangental, but while we're talking about SPF... I've noticed lately that it's getting trickier for businesses to stay within the 10 DNS lookups per SP...
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Ask HN: I am designing a iOS app. Is there a cheat sheet for sizing? - allsystemsgo Also, for retina display, don't I basically need to make the designs twice to accomodate for both retina and non retina displays? Thanks for all your help. I'm new to mobile design. ====== michaelpinto You want to think in terms of a...
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Chaos Communication Congress Call for Participation - lorenzfx http://events.ccc.de/2014/07/12/31c3-call-for-participation-en/ ====== lawl > _As a speaker, you will have free admission._ That wasn't the case in the last years and i think it's a _bad_ change. Congress had always had this kind of community feeling and ...
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Ask HN: An organism which creates an ecosystem to feed on it - Lucadg Thinking about platforms as Amazon, Uber or Facebook I&#x27;m wondering if we can find similar dynamics in nature.<p>Parasites feed on top of bigger organisms but nothing comes to mind about organisms which create or facilitate and ecosystem and the...
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Ask HN: Shadow at a startup for a day - adamzerner Hi guys, I&#x27;m 21, learning to code, and interesting in working at a startup. I&#x27;ll be attending Fullstack Academy (S12) starting September 15th, but I&#x27;m taking a trip out to SF this Wednesday for 5 days (7&#x2F;20-7&#x2F;25).<p>I want to get a feel for ...
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Sierra On-line founder Ken Williams on Adventure gaming in the 80s - peterkelly http://guysfromandromeda.com/ken-williams-joins-chris-pope-live-interview-6812/ ====== mickeyp Sierra ushered in an era of Adventure games, but it took the upstart company games company LucasArts to perfect the formula and eliminate the ...
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Why Y Combinator News is so popular? - martinbc Sometimes newbie questions are the most interesting , it isn't this case, but let's see what happen.<p>The point is that I can't understand why Hacker News has so success.. Design is very poor and seems like 90's websites, the submit form is saddest of all the web. So...
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Seventeenth-Century Tunnel in Mexico Preserves Pre-Contact Artwork - Thevet https://www.archaeology.org/news/8134-191024-mexico-tunnel-images ====== droithomme Here's a good article explaining in detail these dike and other water control systems engineered by the Mexica. Really impressive. [https://www.mexicolore.co....
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Octopress on Raspberry Pi - darryldias https://revryl.com/2013/12/28/octopress-raspberry-pi/ ====== rikkus sudo chmod 777 -R /var/www/ Please don't do that ~~~ darryldias I will look into this and fix it, Thank you.
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The Wrong Abstraction (2016) - mkchoi212 https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction ====== Tainnor I feel some people here are misunderstanding the blog post. Sandi Metz IMHO doesn't claim that the problem occurs at step 2 or 3. She doesn't claim that it's wrong to introduce abstraction when there...
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“Respect Explorer’s Heritage” - playhard http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/we-need-an-invert-selection-button/ ====== doctorwho If the design turns out to be a Microsoft blunder, it just opens the door for someone to build a better file explorer. The ability to do this has led to many great products in the past. The ...
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Anonymous activists release PCAnywhere source code - VMG http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2012/02/07/anonymous-activists-release-pcanywhere-source-code-40094993/ ====== pwnwaffe Btw, one of the 0days is in ./pca32/trunk/Source/Servers/awhost32x/. ;)
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Potentially catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane Willa nearing Mexico's coast - LinuxBender https://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_9f7af5bdc1443dbed0e336355e5816d2 ====== jansan Land mass to the south: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFM1X0o2pnc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFM1X0o2pnc)
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Show HN: Bit Serial CPU - howerj https://github.com/howerj/bit-serial ====== howerj Hello HN, here is a project that I have recently finished, it is a _very_ niche CPU written in VHDL and verified to work on an [FPGA][]. It is a 16-bit [bit-serial][] CPU, which means the processor is incredibly slow taking 102 clock c...
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How to Build Habits to Lead a Better Life in 2015 - karangoeluw https://medium.com/@karan/exactly-how-to-build-habits-to-lead-a-better-life-in-2015-922714665e23 ====== xxjaba Good luck with your changes in 2015! I've also found that focusing on small changes can help quite a bit too when trying to change your habits...
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Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber - amduser29 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/05/lhc_bread_bomb_dump_incident/ ====== JCThoughtscream Murphy loves French pastry, apparently. Loves it enough to share with multibillion dollar high-energy projects. ------ gfodor Does someone with a little mo...
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You can't beat fake news with science communication - snaky https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2018/aug/29/science-communication-fake-news ====== anoncoward111 Why shut down your blog? That's letting the trolls win. The world is something like 99% dog shit and 1% diamonds burried inside. The trolls co...
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'Think of your family': China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests - hkmaxpro https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests ====== mfer Is this really a new thing for China? Reconditioning camps and treatment of people in the m...
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Beyond Bootstrap and Foundation: Frameworks you've never heard of - proksoup http://www.sitepoint.com/beyond-bootstrap-foundation-frameworks-never-heard/ ====== milla88 True. Definitely have never heard of them. Probably for good reasons. I gave flat-ui a try a few months ago, integration was a nightmare. These fram...
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Show HN: Correct Horse Battery Staple password generator - quantum5 https://correcthorse.pw/ ====== atoponce I audit web-based password generators as a hobby, and this one does well. What it does well on: The source code is open source licensed. Passwords are generated in the client, not on the server. The generator...
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Crypto Voucher- Simple, secure and easy way of buying cryptocurrencies - AdelG https://cryptovoucher.io/ ====== AdelG To start trading or to invest your money, Crypto Voucher is the easiest and most convenient way to enter the crypto world. We offer a solution to buy Bitcoin, Litecoin or Ethereum instantly with Credit...
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Game Closure SDK switches to the Mozilla Public License - mcav http://www.gameclosure.com/license.html ====== mcav Context: The Game Closure SDK, a toolkit for developing games in JavaScript that run on the web, iOS, and Android, used to be dual-licensed as the GPL and a proprietary license. The previous license use...
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Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion - gr3g http://gregosuri.com/2011/08/15/text-mate-full-screen.html ====== ajross What a bizarre packaging choice: bash/curl command to pull a shell script to pull and compile a github project which compiles and installs a Text Mate plugin. Yikes. ~~~ gr3g 1) This installs EGOTextMateFul...
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Built to Last: John McPhee's Way of Seeing - samclemens https://www.bookforum.com/inprint/025_04/20435 ====== EamonnMR McPhee is one of those are authors who can make science approachable and at the same time, the everyday people around it deeply fascinating. To HN readers I would recommend The Curve of Binding Energy...
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How I Got a $20,000 USD Cheque from Microsoft - grumo http://grumomedia.com/how-i-got-a-20000-usd-cheque-from-microsoft/ ====== gigantor His video (<http://grumomedia.com/new-grumo-what-is-hipmunk/>) truly brought upon a smile in it's quest to convey simplicty. The spanish accent is very comforting in a way, like ...
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The 10,000-apartment tech campus: what if companies provided on-site housing? - mtviewdave http://itsacoop.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-10000-apartment-tech-campus-what-if.html ====== walshemj There are problems with having "tied" housing what happens when you leave or have a disagreement with your boss oops you are now...
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The AI Economist: Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policy - RichardRNN https://blog.einstein.ai/the-ai-economist/ ====== RichardRNN Paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13332](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13332) Q&A: [https://www.salesforce.com/company/news- press/stories/2020/4...](https://www.sale...
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core-js maintainer threatens millions of users due to new post-install ad policy - switz https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/635#issuecomment-526649749 ====== 0x0 With a threat like this, I think the best action going forward would be to kick the author off of npm, and re-purpose the npm package name to a froze...
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Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First - fortran77 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/reddit-race-black-people-twitter.html ====== dvtrn I wonder if I could pass this test, being technically 'high-yella'. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_yellow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_yellow) ...
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Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby - stanislavb https://preslav.me/2020/09/06/elixir-is-not-ruby-elixir-is-erlang/ ====== latch While I agree, the article doesn't really give concrete examples. Elixir is layered, making it easy to learn and master. You can get pretty far with Phoenix without ever understanding (or even knowi...
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Ask HN: Most applicable functional language to learn? - alttab I've been reading through a Haskell introduction for C programmers, here: http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/intro/section1.html.<p>Before reading through this, I understood the concept. I understood expressiveness, no declarations, functions are data and ...
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Behind the Scenes at Facebook: Scaling Up FBChat Using Erlang - Anon84 http://education.sys-con.com/node/634250 ====== jfarmer FWIW, this is just a republication of a 3-month-old blog post: [http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919&id=...](http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919&id=944554719...
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Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value - ayanai https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/tesla-passes-ford-by-market-value-before-musk-delivers-model-3 ====== dan1234 Interesting, but market cap isn’t everything - FTA: "While Tesla’s market capitalization has swelled in size, Ford still overshadows the Palo Alto...
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Ruling for Apple against Psystar means clone-makers have no legal recourse - envitar http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/14/apple-psystar-cloning-licence-judges-ruling ====== tedunangst Engineering recourse is still an option. Instead of changing Apple's software, change your hardware. But that requir...
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Ember Testing Guide v2.0 - cavneb http://emberjs.com/guides/testing/ Ember now has an extensive guide on integration and unit testing. ====== jinushaun Just finished a big Ember project. Man, could've used this a month ago. The documentation was previously basically nonexistent. I had to rely on StackOverflow. Overa...
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Ask/Show HN: HNdex, lists to replace spreadsheets on HN - vollmond http://hndex.imnotpete.com<p>Hacker News needs a secure way to create directories of our users and their ideas - "These spreadsheets are always vandalized, abandoned and then forgotten." [1] HNdex is that secure way: all lists and list items are iden...
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IFTTT enables you to connect the App.net Channel to 50 different Channels - knappster http://ifttt.com/appdotnet ====== federicoweber Here is my recipe to archive my messages on App.net on a plain text file <http://ifttt.com/recipes/53836>
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Know When To CDN - Walkman http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/13-11-07/know-when-to-cdn ====== willejs "Dynamic Content: Nope." \- not strictly true. Whilst this is true in a lot of cases, especially due to TTLs and slow purge times from edge nodes, services like fastly offer <1 second purge times across all ed...
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WxPython 4.0.0 Released - mariuz https://www.wxpython.org/news/wxpython-4.0.0-release/index.html ====== mch82 How come documentation for "embedded" GUI frameworks like wxPython is so devoid of screenshots and graphical explanation? Compare these pages... * Overview, [https://www.wxpython.org/pages/overview/](https:/...
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Larry Page: Here’s What’s Wrong With My Voice - spking http://au.businessinsider.com/larry-page-my-vocal-cord-2013-5 ====== tantalor Why not link directly to the post? [https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/aqy6DvvL...](https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/aqy6DvvLJY1)
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Do Apple's app reviewers review applications really serious? - foxmoby They rejected my app with the following reason:<p>--- Guideline 2.3.7 - Performance - Accurate Metadata Specifically, the following words in your app name or subtitle are considered keywords or descriptors: A simple editor and can convert content t...
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Verizon Will Charge $2 To Pay Bill Online Or By Phone - 3lit3H4ck3r http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/29/144444008/verizon-will-charge-2-to-pay-bill-online-or-by-phone?ft=1&f=1001 ====== pavel_lishin I cannot imagine why a one-time credit card payment would be more costly than processing a payment mailed i...
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ScaleDB cloud storage engine for MySQL - sadiq http://www.scaledb.com/index.html ====== pedalpete I really want to like this, but I think the description on the main page makes things more complicated than it needs to be. If that is the case, then I assume the product is more complicated than it needs to be. 'Scale...
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25 Years Later, ‘Crossing the Chasm’ Has Withstood the Test of Time - ohjeez https://medium.com/inside-the-salesforce-ecosystem/25-years-later-crossing-the-chasm-has-withstood-the-test-of-time-628b85d3cfaf#.dt7kythc7 ====== gumby An insightful book, though like most business books (and especially the best business boo...
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Ask HN: Would you pay a consultant for this service? - _throwaway__ If you have an app, software, or IT solution applicable to law enforcement needs would you hire a consultant who had law enforcement and government IT experience to review your product, make detailed compliance requirements for your product, and conne...
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And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake - CaliforniaKarl https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/fashion/weddings/and-nobody-noticed-it-was-a-fake-cake.html ====== cs702 Yes, non-edible cakes made of light, cheap materials like styrofoam are routinely displayed at weddings and other ceremonies. One of the layers might be sof...
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Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic About Manga and Anime [pdf] - gwern http://www.gwern.net/docs/2008-gardner.pdf ====== gwern Excerpts: [https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/BhoJHxGf...](https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/BhoJHxGfpvL)
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Show HN: Robotics Exploration Journey - sa-mao https://medium.com/@ou.sarhraoui/a-robotics-journey-introduction-and-context-c5e80f3a717 ====== sa-mao Hello, everyone! I recently started this journey of learning robotics. For now it is only motivated by fulfilling a childhood dream, but I hope it will evolve into some...
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Ask HN: Opinions of new type of VPN service during beta? - Oeck https://www.oeck.com ====== Oeck Hi everyone, My name is Peter and I am from the VPN startup company, Oeck. I am looking to get feedback from advanced computer users regarding our Port-forwarding feature in our VPN primarily. This is a new feature to the...
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When Security Takes a Backseat to Productivity - todsacerdoti https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/when-security-takes-a-backseat-to-productivity/ ====== Veserv I will echo a comment I made in a different thread about the CIA hack. Why does anybody assume they would be able to protect their systems even if it was thei...
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Android tops 81 percent of smartphone market share in Q3 - indus http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/31/strategy-analytics-q3-2013-phone-share/ ====== VanHamersly I _just_ posted a related link that I'm thinking could be related. Do you think the "Give the people what the want/bigger is better" approach played any role? S...
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Best of Hacker News in January 2013 - A curated list - eimarlinch https://www.dotdotdot.me/Mike-Hermann/Best-of-Hacker-News---Jan-13 ====== tikhonj I don't know if it's a matter of the curation or voting patterns, but there were no technical posts on the list. Make of that what you will. ------ cma "Highest-rated a...
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Ask HN: Technologies to help prevent abuse of power? - lftherios ====== perilunar Sousveillance. Does anyone honestly think that George Floyd's killer would have been charged if there wasn't a video recording from a bystander? ------ rowawey Stop. There are no utopian technical solutions to human socio-econo-political...
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A free surveillance system that deploys instantly - paulchen http://homeojo.com ====== paulchen This is a home surveillance system that works nicely for those who do not want to buy any camera. I simply put my old laptop there.
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String theorys second life - EastLondonCoder https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160915-string-theorys-strange-second-life/ ====== M_Grey [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12512954](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12512954) ------ shepardrtc Reposting this link that I found in the comments section from the prev...
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McDonald's staff took offence to digital glasses, inventor says - tokenadult http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/07/17/tech-mann-digital-eye-glass-assault.html ====== ColinWright <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4252955> _Added in edit after tokenadult made his reply:_ _I see that this is, as tokenad...
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Nokia Dreams Of Shipping 200 Million Windows Phones - NonEUCitizen http://www.businessinsider.com/nokia-windows-phone-transition-will-take-two-years-2011-3#ixzz1GL7CSE5O ====== electromagnetic I dream of sending 200 million rocket ships to Mars. I find it hilariously stupid that they're risking their strong presenc...
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Morning Coffee - Get Starbucks Straight to Your House - michael_fine http://yourmorningcoffee.herokuapp.com/ ====== patio11 This seems like a curious choice of potential business when no US-based store will deliver a $3.50 product on a regular basis despite having access to large pools of labor at arbitrarily low co...
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How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima - bilifuduo http://lukemuehlhauser.com/how-german-nuclear-scientists-reacted-to-the-news-of-hiroshima/ ====== Jerry2 Dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579299](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579299) ~~~ tristanj I think you meant dupe o...
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Show HN: GitHub Issues in the Menubar (OS X) - tomgenoni https://github.com/tomgenoni/bitbar-ghissues ====== trepiedle I'm definitely using this
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We Need to Replace Objective-C - AshFurrow http://ashfurrow.com/blog/we-need-to-replace-objective-c ====== jawngee Unfortunately, this was posted so long ago (in internet time) that this comment will probably never be seen, but some things need to be said, so I'll say them here. Someday, someday s...
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Adeo Ressi: If Common Stock Is Worthless, What Does That Mean for Entrepreneurship? - rowel http://www.pehub.com/38110/if-common-stock-is-worthless-what-does-that-mean-for-entrepreneurship/ ====== alain94040 Market forces are mostly to blame for the devaluation of common stock. When you negotiate that first round w...
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Show HN: Injectopi – A set of tutorials about code injection for Windows - peperunas https://github.com/peperunas/injectopi ====== peperunas Hello guys! Let me know what do you think about these tutorials!
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EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5 - c-oreills https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5 ====== josteink This DRM proposition definitely needs all the resistance it can get. We cannot allow DRM into our wonderful, open standards. This is not an option. Not at any price. I'm hones...
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Ask HN: Immature email addresses and job interviews - sauravt ====== sauravt As claimed by this guy, <http://9gag.com/gag/a8LrMpV> , does immature email addresses matter while hiring candidates ?
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Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala - puredanger http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Functional-Data-Structures-in-Scala ====== michaelcampbell I saw this talk (or one based on it) by Dan at Clojure/conj this year. It's a bit over my experience, but he's an extremely engaging speaker, and knows his ...
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Metabase, an open source business analytics startup, closes $8M Series A by NEA - tlrobinson https://www.businessinsider.com/metabase-an-open-source-business-analytics-startup-closes-8-million-2019-4 ====== cammsaul Excited to see this. I love Metabase and use it every day.
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Recovering Emotions After 24 Years on Antidepressants - BobbyVsTheDevil https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/10/recovering-emotions-24-years-antidepressants/ ====== psergeant The only thing that seems to be universally true about mental health is that we’re all different, and someone else’s experiences rarely apply perfe...
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Ask HN: Is it just me or is the IT field becoming discriminatory? - agent00shoe Recently, I&#x27;ve been getting a lot of rejections, for job positions I know I&#x27;m qualified for, and it&#x27;s beginning to make me look for a pattern and question things. I assumed having nearly 15 years of experience writing enterp...
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Ask HN: A Mobile OCR App That Does Circuit Analysis & Solves Math Equations - davidsmith8900 Good Morning &amp; Happy Monday Everyone,<p>How do you feel about an idea like that? ====== mattlutze Did you mean this just as a discussion? I'm not seeing an article link... ~~~ davidsmith8900 \- Oh sorry about that Matt....
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F# Versus Microsoft's Regex. A Lesson in Types - DanielBMarkham http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/07/f-versus-micros.php ====== fleitz F# is one of the hidden jewels of the .NET platform, I really hope they give it first class support like C# and VB.NET. ------ jrockway Wow, F#'s backwards function compos...
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The Price of Modern Life Is Depression and Loneliness? - Red_Tarsius https://medium.com/festival-of-dangerous-ideas/the-price-of-modern-life-is-depression-and-loneliness-96a2367f3460 ====== pinkyand He quotes 2 scientific research papers as claiming ‘spending large amounts of time online for social purposes may increa...
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Show HN: Exchange Alert – Track exchange rates via email or Slack - shawnps http://exchange-alert-978.appspot.com/ ====== shawnps Please excuse the ugly App Engine URL. If people end up showing interest in the app I'll put more time and effort into cosmetic stuff. I built this because I live abroad and didn't reali...
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[german] scientists cure HIV - anonyfox https://mopo24.de/nachrichten/sensation-dresdner-forschern-gelingt-hiv-heilung-49946 ====== jlg23 Summary for those who do not read German or are allergic to tabloids: * worked in lab cultures * worked on humanized mice * they have not done any clinical trials yet Here is th...
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How wars, plagues, and urban disease propelled Europe’s rise to riches - bd http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3823 ====== jacquesm This article almost reads like a synopsis of 'guns, germs and steel' by Jared Diamond. ------ bayareaguy While the article claims to explain the emergence of a income gap by the prese...
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An understated job advertisement - ChristianMarks https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522?trk=job_nov&_mSplash=1 ====== pallandt Soo...lots of responsibilities and a warning to probably not expect an adjusted salary to match them ('Annual Salary: Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-...
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Show HN: A global database of mental associations to spark ideas - rafaeljimenez http://seenapse.it ====== RickS While the idea seems cool, as far as the home page is concerned, I found the colors jarring, the illustrations unsettling (especially that first one), and the text mostly empty of meaning. There are 4 pa...
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Should I Bake? - federicoponzi https://shouldibake.com/ ====== andybrace There's a really good primer article to give some context here: [https://theconversation.com/renewable-energy-supply-and- dema...](https://theconversation.com/renewable-energy-supply-and-demand- during-lockdown-and-the-best-time-to-bake-bread-141...
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My experience learning IPFS and publishing my personal website - Jpoliachik https://youtu.be/N4RKKHSyZlk ====== Jpoliachik I've been meaning to update my personal website for a while - and learning IPFS gave me a great excuse to get started! I had a great time learning IPFS basics and getting something published. I'm...
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Apple Patent Reveals Pseudo-Holographic Display - rmah http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/27/apple-patent-reveals-%E2%80%98pseudo-holographic%E2%80%99-display/ ====== abyssknight Sounds like the eye tracking we saw using the Wii-mote awhile back, just using front-side cameras. Heck, you could do that now with a simpl...
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Simple social skills that will make you more likable - lorax http://www.businessinsider.com/social-skills-that-make-you-likable-2015-11-3 ====== woodandsteel The article includes active listening. That means giving the other person your full attention, and saying back to them their key thoughts and emotions. I just w...
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Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain - buserror https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-says-google-is-patenting-work-he-put-in-the-public-domain/ ====== dxhdr Reading through the linked 2014 email exchange is somewhat amusing. I love how the first two responses to his ideas ...
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Charles Carreon finally quits fighting, calls Oatmeal battle “a dumb thing” - jere http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/charles-carreon-withdraws-final-appeal-says-entire-affair-was-a-dumb-thing/ ====== mikestew "he suggested that his Buddhist religion can help him forgive those who have wronged him." Hmm, a...
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If Men Could Menstruate - sturza https://ww3.haverford.edu/psychology/ddavis/p109g/steinem.menstruate.html ====== empiricallytrue outrageous nonsense, and racist to boot. ~~~ sturza are not unable to entertain a thought without accepting it? ~~~ empiricallytrue I entertained it, it didn't entertain me. ~~~ sturza w...
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A Tragically Comedic Security Flaw in MySQL - stfu https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2012/06/11/cve-2012-2122-a-tragically-comedic-security-flaw-in-mysql ====== kator From user command line: for i in `seq 1 1000`; do mysql -u root --password=bad -h 127.0.0.1 2>/dev/null; done Confirmed it gets...
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Silicon Valley startups rein in spending and prepare for layoffs - apsec112 http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/11/silicon-valley-start-ups-rein-in-spending-and-prepare-for-layoffs.html ====== dimgl I found this particular quote from the article interesting. > Margaret Quigley, 27, a techie with some coding experience, is on...
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How Snowden Escaped - SG- http://news.nationalpost.com/features/how-edward-snowden-escaped-hong-kong ====== chatmasta I don't understand how Snowden was able to fly from HK to Moscow. Was his passport revoked after leaving HK? It seems strange that the US requested extradition from HK but would not revoke his passport...
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HTML 101 – Limited Time Free 2+ hour course - rheaverma http://classes.coursebirdie.com/courses/getting-started-with-html ====== Ritabhakhyan Can I access the benefits mentioned on Coursebirdie's homepage? ~~~ rheaverma Yes, you can access benefits when you sign up. ------ rheaverma If you have any questions, feel f...
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Slickmap CSS file to map out sites during design - davidandgoliath http://astuteo.com/slickmap ====== ivan_ah Neat. This reminds of a prerequisite charts for university courses[1,2]. _______ [1] <http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/labs-schema/> [2] <http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/prerequisite-chart/> ~~...
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Sel4: We’re going open source - wglb http://sel4.systems/ ====== StefanKarpinski This is an awful lot of fanfare for the open sourcing of something that was funded with public money by the government of Australia, using open source tools and technologies. Why isn't it already open source? In general, I would like to ...
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Bill Gates was the Problem with Microsoft - rejuvenile http://maxmicrosoft.com/2013/08/01/bill-gates-was-the-problem-with-microsoft/ ====== yuhong My personal favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco (look at my reference to DR-DOS in the end for example): [http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms- os2-20-fiasco-......
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FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing 737 MAX flight controls - sra77 https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/newly-stringent-faa-tests-spur-a-fundamental-software-redesign-of-737-max-flight-controls/ ====== kejaed As someone who works in this field I have to say this is a really well...
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