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Boston Dynamics' Robot Can Do Parkour Now and It Is Incredibly Impressive - gamechangr http://digg.com/video/boston-dynamics-robot-parkour ====== mattbillenstein The most impressive thing about this post (which I saw two days ago) is digg.com...
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999) - pdkl95 https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html ====== Jtsummers The government initially claimed that using Clipper would be voluntary, that no one would be forced to use it instead of other types of cryptography. But the public reaction against the ...
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Rhyming with NLP and Shakespeare - garysieling http://garysieling.com/blog/rhyming-with-nlp-and-shakespeare ====== tcwc Neat idea! It looks like the NLTK POS tagger is having trouble here so might limit your recall when used as a filter. Instead I wonder if it would be better to use the context of each token to min...
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Scaling Web Applications with HMVC - iisbum http://techportal.ibuildings.com/2010/02/22/scaling-web-applications-with-hmvc/ ====== dasil003 _To reduce the initial investment, usually it is decided that the application should designed to be one holistic piece of software containing all the required features. This repre...
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IBM Says No to Home Work - thecoffman http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/05/19/ibm-says-no-to-home-work.html ====== makecheck Then employees should leave, immediately, and fill out exit surveys appropriately. Do not show companies any loyalty when they show none to you. Besides, this move just seems to scream "w...
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Ask HN: Mechanical engineer that wants to work in the programming field - replicant I am a 27 years old PhD in computational mechanics (finite element method, elasticity ...) who should be graduating in around 6 months. I have been tempted for quite some time by the idea of trying to get a job in the US and work as a ...
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Maybe Monads Might Not Matter - raganwald http://gbracha.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/maybe-monads-might-not-matter.html ====== marshray I thought this [http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2011/01/maybe-monads-might- not-m...](http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2011/01/maybe-monads-might-not- matter.html?showComment=1296027246940#c667180...
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Ask HN: How to handle employee requesting inflated salary/title? - startupqs How do you tactfully and delicately handle the situation where an employee requests compensation and&#x2F;or title above his&#x2F;her performance?<p>On the one hand, you don&#x27;t want to bruise egos, but on the other hand, you need to maint...
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Invitation Only - sarvesh http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/invitation_only/ ====== msluyter I know the article is sort of toungue in cheek, but Thomas Friedman actually said roughly the same thing (minus the eugenics) recently: [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/opinion/11friedman.html?_r...](http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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PostgreSQL across clouds and on-premises with Crossplane and Rook - melsmo https://blog.crossplane.io/postgresql-crossplane-rook/ ====== wmf When a developer requests a Postgres database it may substitute CochroachDB without warning? Sketchy. They could at least use Stolon or something. ~~~ jbw976 The intent is that ...
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Obama administration moves to give work permits to 100k foreign college grads - jquery http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3380380/Obama-administration-quietly-moves-work-permits-estimated-100-000-foreign-college-grads.html ====== sly010 This might be a double edge sword from the green card seekers point of view. ...
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Know Your User Feedback Tools - matt_lo https://getchipbot.com/blog/stop-guessing-know-your-user-feedback-tools-now ====== brutal-ux-me This is the funniest post I’ve read all day, the way it sarcastically promotes things that drive users nuts had me cracking up. Good one. The kicker was when trying to read and a pop ...
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Is Bitcoin the Future of Money? - chrismealy http://www.thenation.com/article/179620/bitcoin-future-money?page=full ====== rtb Betteridge's law of headlines would seem to apply. ~~~ ericb You should read my new article, "Is Betteridge's law true?" ------ jrockway It's the current of having-your-money-stolen, so th...
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Mark Zuckerberg Has Never Cared About Your Privacy, and He’s Not Going to Change - annadane https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/mark-zuckerberg-has-never-cared-about-your-privacy ====== nighthawk1 I’m definitely not a FB fan but the amount of anti FB articles coming out this past week feel excessive. ~~~ sriram_m...
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In Today's Economy, It Seems Like IQ Is More Important Than Ever - paulpauper In Today&#x27;s &lt;a href=&quot;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;greyenlightenment.com&#x2F;winner-take-all-nation&#x2F;&quot;&gt;Winner-Take-All Nation&lt;&#x2F;a&gt; competitive Economy, It Seems Like IQ Is More Important Than Ever<p>People are falling...
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My year with Elixir - zorbash http://zorbash.com/post/my-year-with-elixir/ ====== jetti Interesting. How long did it take you to get up and running with Elixir to where you felt productive? I'm working on a new project and am thinking of using Elixir/Phoenix but my worry is when we hire that it will be harder to find ...
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Amazon AWS vs GitHub – “Suspected Unauthorized Activity” - arijitraja http://pivotedreality.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/amazon-aws-vs-github-suspected-unauthorized-activity/ ====== codegeek "When we moved our Github repository from private to public (as the co-founder was leaving and I had to share it with some other p...
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NYTimes November 11, 1911 - llambda http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/1911/11/11/P1 ====== bittermang Page four features articles on both freight rates concerning interstate commerce[1] and debate over banks allowing customers to overdraft on their deposits[2]. In light of recent Internet tax/interstate commerc...
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Google Plus hangout easter egg: moustache yourself - ianstormtaylor http://plus.google.com/ ====== ianstormtaylor 1\. Start a hangout 2\. Click "Moustache" 3\. Prank your friends
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Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office - primodemus https://hbr.org/2016/05/like-it-or-not-smart-drugs-are-coming-to-the-office ====== imh I'm surprised not to see a single mention of coffee. I've used it as a drug plenty of times (not drinking it because I want to, but because I need the caffeine boos...
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Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual curiosity? - baobaba What are your favorite places online to learn new things and get inspired in an intellectual sense? ====== mindcrime Youtube - no joke, there is an absurd amount of amazing content on youtube. Yeah, there's also all the shitty pop music, cat v...
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HTML5 and JavaScript Game Development Competition in Just 13 KB - nodivbyzero http://js13kgames.com/entries/2015 ====== xem JS13k is a great game jam, and the only one I know that offers so many prizes to all the people that submit an entry (and even more prizes for the best entries). Great community too! You can join...
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On-Chip Interconnection Architecture of the Tile Processor (2007) [pdf] - steven741 https://www.princeton.edu/~wentzlaf/documents/Wentzlaff.2007.IEEE_Micro.Tilera.pdf ====== ernon Ahh Tilera. When MIT's RAW architecture went commercial and became Tilera, it looked like the multicore future was finally coming. They had...
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Rate my Startup: Quicklyst, a note-taking application - shantanubala Hello HN. I'd like to thank you all for the sheer amount of resources and discussions available on this site that are just a search away. They're great for helping make decisions.<p>I just launched Quicklyst in the spirit of "launch a product you'r...
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Companies of the future: No CEO, no boss, managed by blockchain - ivorium https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/23/companies-of-the-future-no-ceo-no-boss-managed-by-blockchain/?utm_content=bufferb6e1e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== infinii The concept of a DAO is too simplistic when pre...
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Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide - titzer https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/facebook-ai-suicide-prevention/ ====== sf0i Do folks on HN actually think this is the only psychological metric Facebook is tracking, and that this is something new? A slightly obsessive, insecure state of mind makes for the mos...
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Please review my startup - Vipidme.com - a video generator - pogos A couple of weeks ago we launched http://vipidme.com.<p>It is a webapp where you can create your own customized video using our predefined templates. Currently you can only customize textual information, but we're working on new features like the pos...
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Quantum Randomness - Tomte http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.16217,y.2014,no.4,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx ====== md224 Enjoyed the shout-out to Bohmian mechanics. Nonlocality may be weird, but you know what else is weird? _Everything else about quantum mechanics._ I'd actually prefer a nonlocal ...
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Microsoft working on porting Sysinternals to Linux - LinuxBender https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-working-on-porting-sysinternals-to-linux/ ====== tellarin Discussion here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18378332](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18378332)
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BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago - prosa http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30rig.html?pagewanted=all ====== seldo This article was posted (and extensively discussed) yesterday in the comments on the other Deepwater Horizon story: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389647> The WSJ also has ...
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The Great Seal Bug: How Theremin Eavesdropped On US Ambassador - georgecmu http://www.spybusters.com/Great_Seal_Bug.html ====== Zenst Realy nice read, lots of interesting and insightful details and gives a good insight into the whole cold-war life and times. I have worked with a modern sweeper team and can only ima...
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Future Airplanes Will Fly on Twistable Wings - prostoalex http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/future-airplanes-will-fly-on-twistable-wings ====== jacquesm Full circle to the Wright Flyer then: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer) ~~~ hodgesrm Don't forget b...
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Netflix Data Science Interview Questions – Acing the AI Interview - vimarshk https://medium.com/acing-ai/netflix-data-science-interview-questions-acing-the-ai-interview-176cd3a0009f ====== vimarshk Happy to discuss if there are any suggestions.
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Mercedes-Benz conducting the biggest test using drones to ship everyday items - flinner https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-28/mercedes-plans-more-drone-deliveries-after-100-perfect-flights ====== michrassena I can imagine drone delivery's an effective solution to the last mile problem for automated delive...
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Help Gmail has killed my personal email - arpa So out of the blue, my extremely low traffic email has been blacklisted by google. It is not in DNSBL, end-to-end encryption is used when delivering mail, I have a http(s) on the same ip&#x2F;domain with short bio, DKIM, DMARC, SPF, the works (that have been working since...
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JsPDF generates PDF documents using pure JavaScript - nreece http://code.google.com/p/jspdf/ ====== nreece Here's a basic example: <http://jspdf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/basic.htm> ------ invisible I love that they use data: and I've never thought to do that for something as simple as a PDF (which can be rea...
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Banks and Brokerages Should Be Mining the Blockchain - csomar http://avc.com/2015/06/banks-and-brokerages-should-be-mining-the-blockchain/ ====== csomar I wonder how this will affect profit-driven miners. If banks start to mine not-for-profit, in an activity, that is already almost non-profitable, then this will mak...
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Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent - igonvalue http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html ====== harryf What I've seen with my kids (under 10) is when they get an hour of phone or tablet, after they have to give it up again, they become very aggressive and behave in a manner wh...
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London tops list of most expensive cities in which to live and work - neverminder http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/london-rio-hong-kong-sydney-new-york-expensive-cities-live-work-rent-a6905136.html ====== marvel_boy I guess that this will have very bad consequences. For example, is very dificult for Lon...
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Free Software Foundation Releases FY2015 Annual Report - jordigh http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-releases-fy2015-annual-report ====== mark_l_watson I enjoyed reading that! I am a member (donate $10/month to FSF and $4/month to the Software Conservancy). I am a little surprised that there are only 320...
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Scientists Send Text Message Using Vodka - dylandrop http://www.voanews.com/content/scientists-send-text-message-using-vodka/1813783.html ====== pavel_lishin A rather linkbaity headline; I send text messages using vodka pretty often, and then I have to check to see what exactly I said in the morning. Interesting, t...
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Show HN: Did not find automated personalization for websites and created this - alexeykudinkin https://www.landy.io/ ====== gk1 As a CRO consultant this is interesting, but I'm skeptical. (It's not particularly your fault. Nearly every marketing tool promises nirvana, but very few of them deliver.) It sounded great u...
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Show HN: Javadoc Rewritten from Scratch - sebkur https://github.com/sebkur/javadoc-ng ====== sebkur This project is really in early stage, but I would like to get feedback on this early to see if it is worth to keep working on it. Thank you for any feedback! ~~~ ldeangelis It looks great! I never really used Javadoc ...
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Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry - tinkerteller https://twitter.com/morganknutson/status/1049523067506966529?s ====== DyslexicAtheist dupe of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217912](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217912) which is dupe of [https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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Perkeep: personal storage system for life - setra https://perkeep.org/doc/overview ====== buro9 [https://perkeep.org/](https://perkeep.org/) is the new(ish) name for Camlistore, created by Brad Fitzpatrick and with a lot of active developers. From the home page (rather than the linked overview): > Perkeep (née Camli...
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What I Didn't Say (2013) - lisper http://www.paulgraham.com/wids.html ====== wand3r PG seems like a good guy and there doesn't seem to be evidence or allegations. He co-founded YC with a woman who he attributes a lot of the companies success to. YC did a lot for ALL founders during his stead. The point is, in a clima...
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Ask HN: Extremely High Paying C++ Jobs? - jaywalker I am not sure whether this would be an interesting topic for wanna-be entrepreneurs of HN but I don't know of any other place with such brilliant skills. The question is, "Does it make sense to try one's luck with one of the extremely high paying C++ jobs?" I am re...
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Linus Torvalds finds GNOME 3.4 to be a "total user experience design failure" - tanglesome http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-34-to-be-a-total-user-experience-design-failure/11127 ====== ajross This is just a transcription of a Google+ post. Is that really what ZDNet has come to? Can't ...
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Linux grabs its single biggest win - boyanov http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/linux-grabs-its-single-biggest-win/3690 ====== JPKab This writer should do a little research and educate himself on the DoD software community a little bit. The DoD has been using Linux for years. Red Hat has HUGE contracts within...
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Web hosting, but good - grobmeier http://www.grobmeier.de/web-hosting-but-good-05052013.html ====== gingerlime As shared hosting go, I think webfaction is second to none. They really manage to hit this sweet-spot between VPS and shared hosting, and you get the best of both worlds. You get lots of stuff out of the b...
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Wildcard Debuts a News-Reading App Designed for Mobile - jordancooper http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/11/wildcard-debuts-a-news-reading-app-designed-for-the-mobile-age/ ====== jordancooper Hackernews module is coming in next release...you'll be able to add it to your Wildcard feed. Happy to talk product if anyone want...
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Fixing the Hacker News API - hellotimmutton http://timmutton.com.au/blog/fixing-the-hacker-news-api ====== dang Good work! You're right about those limitations. We're aware of them and intend to fix them. ~~~ hellotimmutton Thank you :) Thats great to hear
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​Medieval garlic and bile potion kills MRSA superbug - virmundi http://www.cbsnews.com/news/medieval-garlic-and-bile-potion-kills-mrsa-superbug/#postComments ====== nsnick I can't find a link in this article to any reputable source. CBS probably sensationalized the information they were provided.
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Ask HN: Do you unit test? - codereview1 ====== jheriko yes. it is good. although not religiously... often its a great strategy for fixing a bug and making sure it never rears its ugly head again... sometimes making the test is too difficult - to the point where test driven development is ruled out, even from the b...
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Show HN: Colourful cellular automaton with WebAssembly - cimi_ http://cimi.io/color-automata/ ====== cimi_ Source: [https://github.com/cimi/color- automata](https://github.com/cimi/color-automata) Also, if you click the transparent octocat in the corner you will get a modal with some config options and links. ------...
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Linux Filesystem Fuzzing with American Fuzzy Lop [pdf] - grhmc http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/AFL%20filesystem%20fuzzing%2C%20Vault%202016.pdf ====== cyphar Fuzzing is an incredibly useful technique for finding bugs in a codebase. But it should be noted that BUG() is the _only_ valid respo...
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Content Farms Are Dead - adgasf http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/content-farms-are-dead ====== PaulHoule Today's seniors were sharing stupid viral content via email when the millenials were in diapers. In 1995 my 50 something relatives would email each other with jokes about Viagra, now they are 70 something's. ...
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Ask YC: Drupal? - aaron4411 Would you use Drupal for the Alpha release of a social bookmarking and news aggregation site? ====== cjoh Drupal's lack of object orientation, confusing user-interface and administration, weird nomenclature, and the fact that it really is (despite what their community may tell you) a con...
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I’m not going to any conferences this year - secos http://www.mattsecoske.com/2013/03/im-not-going-to-any-conferences-this-year/ ====== petercooper I co-chair a conference and share your stance. An lot of people are heavy into the idea of social/community conferences and treat other programmers as their main social...
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Mom's Instagram account shut down over breastfeeding selfie - chrisdinn http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/mom-s-instagram-account-shut-down-over-breastfeeding-selfie-1.2640768 ====== sivetic Instagram's argument is that the picture contained child pornography. The picture was of a topless toddler breast feeding, ...
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Introducing the Hackpad change feed - orph https://hackpad.com/yvE7V1XnDyo#Introducing-the-Hackpad-change-feed ====== geoffschmidt I love Hackpad! Just about all Meteor API designs, emails, and blog posts start life as Hackpads. ------ bitsweet Hackpad is an excellent collaboration tool, if you don't use it, you sh...
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The FBI could end up with 5% of all bitcoins - whatgoodisaroad http://qz.com/132327/the-fbi-could-end-up-with-5-of-all-bitcoins-and-it-plans-to-sell-them/ ====== segacontroller So.... $1.2 B or $78 M?
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Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor - nature http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/09/06/forward-motion/ ====== esotericn I have full faith that, if I had left a computer running, in the corner of my home, with an IRC client open, it would have been able to maintain a connection to Freenode (not continuously, but just w...
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Happy 25th Birthday ".COM" - kvs http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=132515 ====== kvs How old is your oldest (current) domain?
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AWS PartiQL SQL-compatible access to relational, semi-structured, & nested data - based2 https://partiql.org/ ====== based2 [https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/opensource/announcing- partiq...](https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/opensource/announcing-partiql-one- query-language-for-all-your-data/) [https://partiql.org/asse...
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Does anyone have the same problem as me regarding ATT customer service? - wanghq Few months ago, I talked to one ATT customer representative on the phone to unlock my previous iPhone 3gs. After chatting ~50min, they told me I need to provide my original receipt. I bought the iPhone from att 4 years ago and lost the ...
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Ask HN: Window manager for multiple projects recommendations? - eorge_g Is there a product that organizes terminal, browser, FTP client, finder, etc. sessions and organizes them by project? I&#x27;m a freelance dev who is working on a project 4 hours in the morning, then switch to something in the afternoon, only to h...
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How to utilize D3.js with Rails partials? - tommaxwell Hi HN,<p>I&#x27;m building a Rails app that needs some visualizations, but I have a problem. In the app, users have folders which contain entries that they create. When you visit the site (logged in), you are shown a list of all your folders, and clicking on on...
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Show HN: News site solely based on what people share - throwaway1270 http://newsscale.com ====== grey-area Nicely done - I like the simple styling for pulling in a multitude of news stories and presenting them in a format proven to work for news sites (The Daily Mail uses this for example to pull readers in to other...
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The Cartel: How BP Got Insider Tips Through a Secret Chat Room - randomname2 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-30/-cartel-chat-room-tied-to-bp-gave-fx-tips-from-banks-to-client.html ====== dllthomas Um, various comment sections and article verbiage aside, is "insider trading" the issue here? It seems like this w...
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Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1995) - Tomte http://amasci.com/miscon/whyhard1.html ====== charlieflowers This is very interesting. I read some, skimmed some, and saved the doc. But I _wish_ the author had a section that attempted to explain electricity in a simple, yet accurate way. He complains about th...
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Announcing the MakeGamesWithUs Summer Academy - DesaiAshu https://www.makegameswith.us/summer-academy/ ====== dave_sullivan Man, there's really going to be a big industry in what essentially ends up being programming camps for rich kids. As the value of college declines, SAT prep programs and otherwise may suffer--o...
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Show HN: Malcheck, a tool to test memory allocation failure handling - AndyKelley https://github.com/andrewrk/malcheck ====== AndyKelley I posted the idea for this yesterday morning[1] and got no responses but I decided to make a proof of concept anyway :-). Then I made the mistake of doing Show HN but not using a l...
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The Stack Is An Implementation Detail - baha_man http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/04/27/the-stack-is-an-implementation-detail.aspx ====== noss «Leaving performance considerations aside, what possible difference does it make to the developer whether the CLR’s jitter happens to allocate memory for a part...
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Show HN:Best Thank You ECard for iPhone – Say Thank You with a Picture - alexgan https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thank-you-cards-maker-photo/id921205186?ls=1&mt=8 ====== opless Missing [Show HN:] prefix.
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Eric Weinstein: The Mathematician Turned Physicist and Economist - jdcampolargo https://www.juandavidcampolargo.com/blog/ericweinstein ====== tmaly Eric’s podcast is amazing. He gets very deep on subjects I would have never thought would be interesting at first blush. Definitely worth a listen if you have not heard h...
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Ask HN: Has HN changed the rules for being able to reply to existing comments? - teh_klev I&#x27;ve been a registered HN user for 504 days and accrued a modest 269 karma points over that time, but I do think my behaviour has been fairly courteous over that time.<p>Until earlier today I was allowed to reply to existi...
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Personal OKRs for Success - mkfeuhrer https://mohitkhare.me/blog/personal-okrs/ ====== snidane I'd posit this quantitative approach is harmful not only to one's personal life - turning yourself into a robot, forgetting that life is more akin to a dance than a project with a budget and a deadline. Something that you do...
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Scalable computer programming languages - prakash http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/scalable_computer_programming_languages.html ====== jrockway He is exactly right with respect to the language concepts. The language analysis is hit-or-miss; but nobody uses every programming language, so it's hard to be...
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If You Have A Smartphone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move - dhimes http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27784/ ====== DanielBMarkham Note that the tech is there to do this with the cell radio -- no WiFi required. It's just a lot more expensive and hasn't been widely commercialized yet. The gap that's l...
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Google’s Internal Response to Imminent E.U. Charges - virtuabhi http://recode.net/2015/04/14/here-is-googles-internal-response-to-the-imminent-e-u-charges-memo/ ====== pja It ought to have been transparently obvious to Google execs from when Google became utterly dominant in the web search space that the risk of anti-...
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Ask HN: Why do open source projects attract more coders than designers? - ben-gy ====== swanson I wonder if part of it is the mentality. If a developer works on something for no money, it's open source. If a designer works on something for no money, it's free spec work. Developer culture praises open source. Desi...
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India is drowning in its own excreta - ragsagar http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2013/04/24/india-drowning-in-its-own-excreta/ ====== MarkMc Here's an extract on this topic from a fantastic book called 'Poor Economics': Most experts agree that access to piped water and sanitation can have a dramatic impa...
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Eavesdropping on Expressions (Ruby) - briancooley http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/programming/eavesdropping-on-expressions.html ====== dylan This is now in the Ruby 1.9 core: <http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Object.html#M000309> ~~~ tyler It's also built into Rails. ~~~ zenspider both of these poin...
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Vue.js founders response to removing Black Lives Matter banner - 10-6 https://github.com/vuejs/vuejs.org/issues/2616#issuecomment-639523406 ====== mindcrime The best example I've seen yet, that illustrates why the Black Lives Matter message is important and distinct from saying "All lives matter" in a just way went so...
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Why Everyone Hates Customer Service - psim1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/everyone-hates-customer-service-this-is-why-11564804882?mod=rsswn ====== kilburn I won't deny many companies are playing this game of skimping as much as they can get away with, and I despise this practice. There's also the other side of the fenc...
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With broad, random tests for antibodies, Germany seeks path out of lockdown - _Microft https://www.nytimes.com./2020/04/18/world/europe/with-broad-random-tests-for-antibodies-germany-seeks-path-out-of-lockdown.html ====== anotheryou But it hasn't ramped up yet and they loosen the lockdown already by monday. The got R ...
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Ask HN: Do you think Intellectual Property laws do more good or harm? - bkmeneguello Millions of people suffer because medical equipments and medicine are protected by these laws, there is no point in thread an individual liberty to protect an abstract concept like an idea or invention. ====== WheelsAtLarge I'm one th...
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Interview with Dan Rose from FB and Amazon - jasonmcalacanis https://youtu.be/srA_fWT_iCU ====== jasonmcalacanis this one was special... only person I know who worked for Bezos and Zuck -- really great episode.
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Ballmer on Ballmer: His Exit From Microsoft - aleem http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303460004579194150724298162-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwNDExNDQyWj ====== brianpgordon I can't believe that the article doesn't contain the slightest mention of any of the numerous disasters that took place under Ballmer's ...
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Ask HN: Sr Software Management Positions Perks? - someuber Hi everyone,<p>I have been offered fairly senior positions with a couple of Fortune 100 companies. I have a non-traditional background and would appreciate insights from folks who have been there and done that.<p>I would appreciate your insights to help with n...
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A Comprehensive Guide To Debugging Rails | Jack Kinsella – Analyst Berlin - delfuego http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2014/06/06/a-comprehensive-guide-to-debugging-rails.html ====== delfuego Although I think you have pointed out some spot on concepts in diagnosing issues, I think the leading analogy is lacking. I don't thin...
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Traders question value of stock-market circuit breakers - JumpCrisscross https://www.wsj.com/articles/traders-question-value-of-stock-market-circuit-breakers-11584351001 ====== seanhunter Contrary to what this article and other news sources seem to think, the purpose of "circuit breakers" (usually called intraday vola...
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Facebook passes Google sites in total user minutes - aspir http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129762892 ====== beaumartinez I'm not surprised; Google is an information intermediary (you go there to find something else) whereas Facebook is information (you go there to find out about your friends). ...
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Six Months of HackerNews Front Page Data - matt1 http://www.mattmazur.com/2010/03/six-months-of-hackernews-front-page-data/ ====== eob I hacked together a quick script to generate new HN story titles from your list of existing ones. It is a pretty shoddy job -- no syntax-level modeling -- but some of the ones it ge...
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What do Stanford CS PhD students think of their PhD program? [pdf] - suuser https://archive.org/download/phd_student_survey_summary_report_0a5c/phd_student_survey_summary_report_0a5c.pdf ====== wallflower Philip Guo's "The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir" is an amazingly well- written and sage chronicle of getting a...
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Russian Hacker Builds 70 Terabyte Home Computer - jeffmiller http://www.pcworld.com/article/208655/russian_hacker_builds_70_terabyte_home_computer.html ====== tghw BackBlaze, an online backup company, posted a great blog article a while back about building their custom 67TB servers for just under $8,000. They even inc...
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The Forgotten Home of Tennis’s Open Era - Graham24 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/sports/tennis/british-hard-court-championships.html ====== dmurray It's strange to think of an era where the prestigious competitions were in amateur sports and this watershed moment was allowing professionals (who made their money p...
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Interesting fact on the right-hand side - babuskov https://www.google.com/search?q=chuck+norris ====== babuskov What's even more interesting is that the "fact" changes each time you load the page.
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Useful tools and resources for web developers - BlackGecko http://webpickings.com/ ====== st3f4no Great growing collection
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