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Jeff Bezos at 30 - darrenlee http://blog.darrenlee.net/2013/01/jeff-bezos-at-30/ ====== darrenlee Unlike Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook at an early age and found great success straight from his dormitory room at Harvard, Jeff discovered Amazon when he was 30. It wasn’t easy from the beginning as he made a cro...
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Quantum at Microsoft Ignite 2019 - omiossec https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/quantum-at-microsoft-ignite-2019/ ====== carty76ers Lots of Microsoft quantum posts all at once omiossec!
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PeerTransfer Attracts Financing From Spark Capital - motvbi http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/peertransfer-announces-first-round-of-funding/?ref=technology ====== motvbi Link peertransfer.com. Sounds promising.
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Cat and Cloud Coffee Told by Caterpillar Inc. To Stop Using “CAT” in Trademark - rdhyee https://www.ksbw.com/article/cat-and-cloud-coffee-in-santa-cruz-facing-trademark-controversy-against-caterpillar-inc/27595279 ====== sathackr They say: "Could anybody imagine a $54 billion machinery company coming after a coffee co...
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Creating a Radial Menu in CSS - msvan http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132864/circular-tooltip/13137862#13137862 ====== alanh As another commenter here notes, this is in fact a “radial menu.” Terminology is important. Language loses power when we use words incorrectly, so please: Do not call this a “tooltip.” T...
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Is Death Reversible? - LinuxBender https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-death-reversible/ ====== RcouF1uZ4gsC Neurosurgeons have been using hypothermia (cooling down the body) and circulatory arrest (stopping the heart) to treat complicated brain aneurysms since the 1980's. Some of the outcomes have been very...
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Show HN: Indexing video through content - steeve https://manage.veezio.com/#!/videos/video_object:youtube.com:video:VLzKjxglNyE?q=nasa&demo ====== julien421 I don't understand, so you sync the video with the transcript or do you extract the transcript yourself from the video? ~~~ steeve We "generate" it, through sp...
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Coding Interview Solutions Manual - cism http://interviewsolutionsmanual.com/ ====== greenyoda This is just an ad for a $20 e-book, posted by someone who created their HN ID solely for this purpose.
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A Spacecraft for All: The Journey of the ISEE-3 - mightybrenden http://spacecraftforall.com/comet-chase ====== joegaudet I'd love to see something like this for NASA missions, Cassini, New Horizons, The Voyagers. Really cool visualization of the missions. ~~~ jsiarto Not exactly the same--but NASA has a pretty coo...
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Elon Musk and Tesla sued over “funding secured” tweet - calcifer https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/11/elon-musk-and-tesla-sued-over-funding-secured-tweet ====== barbarr Well, it was bound to happen. Curious to see what comes of it.
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Ask HN: Browsers' share of your site - conductor The current whole-world statistics of browsers' "market" share are well-known, but it would be nice to know the situation grouped by region and site type. Please contribute.<p>Real example:<p>Region: East Europe Site type: Entertainment, movies/music discussion<p>Goog...
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Five Years, That’s All We’ve Got - Sodaware http://www.subfurther.com/blog/2011/12/13/five-years-thats-all-weve-got/ ====== batista _This isn’t the first time I’ve put an unpopular prediction out there: in 2005, back when I was with O’Reilly and right after the Intel transition announcement, I I predicted that Mac O...
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Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify - garrepi https://sametunes.com/ ====== garrepi Hey HN! I'm one of the developers on the SameTunes team. We've spent the whole summer working out of a house to build this platform. We're really proud of the work we've done and hope you all enjoy using it...
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Ask HN: Adsense banned me while owing me 30k. What could I have done? - m0dE This actually happened last year. Google banned my Adsense account and never gave me a clear reason why. I appealed twice, but they rejected both without telling me why. At this point, I gave up after that reading about how notorious they&#x2...
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Build It With Me Helps Connect Designers With Developers - transburgh http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/08/build-it-with-me ====== rajeshamara This one of the crapiest websites I have ever seen. Very slow and horrible design ~~~ freetard You're right about it being slow, it's even slow on chromium. I hope it will im...
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As Artificial Intelligence Evolves, So Does Its Criminal Potential - tysone http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/technology/artificial-intelligence-evolves-with-its-criminal-potential.html ====== hellofunk You replace "Artificial Intelligence" in this title with nearly anything, and it will remain true. ~~~ skewart True...
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Want to use my wifi? - rishabhd https://thejh.net/written-stuff/want-to-use-my-wifi? ====== ivthreadp110 Cleaver Beavers :) Nice read!
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Show HN: A team management app you can call home - signalhill https://hiburo.com/blog/2014/01/13/hiburo-ready/ ====== lauriswtf If you have any questions, feedback or wonders, feel free to ask here. // One of the co-founders
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Show HN: Pictorical, Crowd-illustrated books startup - cuchoperl http://pictorical.com ====== cuchoperl Hello, we want to share with the HN community our startup, Pictorical. We are two nomadic entrepreneurs from Chile, and a growing community of artists worldwide. We illustrate classic stories, publish them as ebo...
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Ask HN: Are SF and NY the best cities for programming jobs? - Onixelen ====== segmondy All you need is one job. One solid reliable job. Find that job in any city you like and you have found the best city for the programming job you like. This is my own personal disclaimer, I don't believe in seeking "fun jobs." I beli...
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Tired? The importance of letting ideas marinate and percolate through sleep - robg http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/technology/28proto.html?ref=business ====== SapphireSun After spending 8 years not getting any sleep, I finally realized that I'm more efficient with real sleep. I finally wised up. In retrospect, my du...
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Hacker News Meetup Cologne Hostile Takeover - bitboxer http://www.meetup.com/Cologne-Startup-Pitch-Night/messages/boards/thread/28544502 ====== blacktar The backstory is that I, Vidar Andersen, the original initiator of the Cologne meetup - initially make a mistake. I made a mistake in not updating my payment detai...
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New Type of Dementia Identified - open-source-ux https://www.nhs.uk/news/neurology/new-type-dementia-identified/ ====== JPLeRouzic TDP-43 abnormal bodies are present in cytoplasm in almost all CNS diseases. Other proteins bodies are present as well. Some publications tell TDP-43 bodies are not the cause of the disease...
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Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS - samueladam http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Operating+Systems&articleId=9133570&taxonomyId=89 ====== jganetsk "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." -Rob Pike, circa 1991
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Predator Drones being used domestically against Americans - ck2 http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/la-na-drone-arrest-20111211,0,5744305,full.story ====== mindcrime So, who wants to work on a project to build an open-source drone that can shoot one of these things down? I mean, seriously, if the government can have th...
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Ask HN: let's build a list of reasons why startups fail - Lucadg I am writing a business plan for a new idea of mine. After all the reasons why this is the best idea ever and countless industries are going to be disrupted I am now writing "what could go wrong". This is the sad part but it has to be done. I have alre...
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Run Google Play on an emulator and pretend to be any device - wallflower http://blog.apkudo.com/2012/08/08/run-google-play-on-an-emulator-and-pretend-to-be-any-device/ ====== GooseEye3 The dastardly Error 491!
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Neanderthal 0.9.0 – Clojure high-performance computing is getting into shape - dragandj http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/Neanderthal-090-released-Clojure-high-performance-computing ====== dragandj The author here. I'll be happy to help you getting started, or answer your questions here.
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U.S. student debt: $966B as of Q4, 2012 - Q6T46nT668w6i3m http://newyorkfed.org/newsevents/mediaadvisory/2013/Lee022813.pdf ====== pash As of last December, there is another repayment option geared toward the enterprising (or not) Hacker News sort, at least those not yet flush with cash. The Pay As You Earn option [0]...
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Get more out of your Netflix subscription - kirubakaran http://feedflix.com/ ====== raghus This is the site I am working on - I'd greatly appreciate feedback from HN on what you guys think. Btw, RWW covered FeedFlix a couple days ago: <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/feedflix.php> ~~~ icey 1) This site really l...
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Was the Flash Crash Apple's Fault? - drawkbox http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/apple-microsoft-flash-crash-market-capitalization/6/7/2010/id/28621?page=full ====== wglb No. Bad headline, article confuses correlation and causation, not thoughtful.
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The Android Explosion: How Google’s Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens the iPhone - barista http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/mf_android/ ====== barista Now just replace Jha with Elop, Motorola with Nokia and Andriod with Windows Phone. One thing lacking is the operator like Verizon.
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Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA - cft https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA ====== DannyBee This is not surprising, but sad. Years ago, i was dragged (i was the only engineer in the local office) into a whitehouse (or maybe it was state department, i can't remember) sponsored working ...
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List of DL topics with resources for a quick brief, especially before interviews - vlgiitr https://github.com/vlgiitr/DL_Topics ====== vlgiitr Vision and Language Group, a deep learning group at IIT Roorkee, has made a list of topics of DL with resources which one should be familiar with, and that could come in handy ...
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Deconstructing Sega's System 16 Security – Part 2 - kens https://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2020/04/deconstructing-segas-system-16-security-part2.html ====== airstrike Part one: [https://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2019/10/deconstructing- seg...](https://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2019/10/deconstructing-sega- system16-sec...
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Under-challenged web dev looking for work - tommaxwell Hi HN readers,<p>After spending 7 months building a startup with my friend that I subsequently chose to end development of, I&#x27;m looking for some work to make some extra money and keep my mind working.<p>Since moving on from my startup I&#x27;ve found myself...
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A simple and super awesome website - rokhayakebe http://about.me. I am not affiliated with the site, but I like it's simplicity. It does one think and does it extremely well. ====== rokhayakebe Clickable <http://about.me> <http://www.about.me/directory/>
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Signal Identification Wiki (VLF to UHF) - noyesno http://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide ====== blantonl If you are looking for crowd-sourced localized frequency information, check out [http://www.radioreference.com](http://www.radioreference.com) ~~~ nitrogen Looking at the archive link posted in ...
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It’s Time for Greece to Leave the Euro - juanplusjuan http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/jochen-bittner-its-time-for-greece-to-leave-the-euro.html ====== antman > A big part of the blame for this mess rests on the shoulders of the > chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel herself. Her statement that “if the > eu...
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My next chapter - dorianm http://chrishateswriting.com/post/140641275808/my-next-chapter ====== c3534l Moot has always appeared to me to be a very talented and bright person. I think it's a mistake to judge him by what some people will say on an anonymous image board. The influence of 4chan on internet culture cannot ...
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Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death for Atheism - snowy http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=*Morning%20Brief ====== greenyoda See also this related article: Sau...
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Bank Theives Foiled by GPS-Spiked Cash - yan http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/gps-spiked-cash/ ====== RiderOfGiraffes Same story: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1037097> No comments so far ...
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How Can I Be as Great as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Richard Branson? - weeber http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-Steve-Jobs-Elon-Musk-Richard-Branson/answer/Justine-Musk?srid=iAix&share=1# ====== byoung2 Determination, calculated risk-taking, a lot of hard work, a relentless pursuit of gr...
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How to Teach a Child to Argue - ed http://inpraiseofargument.squarespace.com/teach-a-kid-to-argue/ ====== ColinWright There was significant discussion when this was submitted four years ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632518](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632518) It includes both unalloyed praise...
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What is a coder's worst nightmare? - spiffytech https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answer/Mick-Stute?share=1 ====== JohnBooty Understanding unfamiliar legacy code with a bunch of kludges and "domain knowledge" or "business logic" baked into it, when the original authors are uninterested/unavailable...
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Ask HN: Should I drop out for an online CS degree? - throwaway19123 My current university is less than challenging and has a lot of Mickey Mouse courses that teach buzzwords like AI and integrated data platforms (in the first semester!) without actually talking about implementation or even the theory behind them. I do...
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Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineering job? - jackallis i guess i would like to meet these mythical self taught software engineers. ====== otras I just commented this on another thread, but it's also relevant here: As someone who entered the field with a non-CS degree, I can tell you about my own...
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Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web - carsonfarmer https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/decentralisation-next-big-step-for-the-world-wide-web-dweb-data-internet-censorship-brewster-kahle ====== sixdimensional It strikes me that, if we are ever to expand the Internet into space on a...
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France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative - kushti http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-internet-encryption-idUSKCN10M1KB ====== Davidbrcz I'm French and I can honestly say that we have the dumbest government the world has ever seen.
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VW Presentation in 2006 Showed How to Foil Emissions Tests - abhi3 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/business/international/vw-presentation-in-06-showed-how-to-foil-emissions-tests.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1 ====== mjfern Yes, the defeat device VW employed for emissions is an environmental tragedy, but this is just a sym...
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New Amazon EC2 Feature: Boot from Elastic Block Store - jeffbarr http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/new-amazon-ec2-feature-boot-from-elastic-block-store.html ====== nethergoat This is tremendously useful and lowers the barrier to entry for new adopters. Unfortunately, it's also a temptation to make poor design decis...
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Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018) - Anon84 https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231373-human-level-intelligence-or-animal-like-abilities/fulltext ====== mensetmanusman Surprised I haven’t come across this analogy before. Thinking about it now, ‘Animal-like abilities’ is a much better analogy ...
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The Fallacy of Chesterton’s Fence (2014) - Tomte http://abovethelaw.com/2014/01/the-fallacy-of-chestertons-fence/ ====== Lazare Chesterton's Fence is always worth keeping in mind when maintaining code too. Sometimes you'll come across some crazy nested conditional that seems to be checking for cases that can't even h...
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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today (2012) - pmarin http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html ====== abruzzi Im a dabbling electronic musician, so I understand a lot about keeping very old technology functional in the modern world...
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Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (2008) - prajjwal http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/why-doesnt-anyone-give-a-crap-about-freedom-zero.html ====== icebraining I hope the irony of asking about the _Free Software_ "Freedom Zero" and then only talking about Open Source was not lost on Atwood. Peo...
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Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005) - grujicd http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html ====== Razengan Watch it. Wars were started for less. The Spectrum was my first ever computer, and the Commodore 64 my second.. Or rather, _our_ computer, as it was shared by the adults in our famil...
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CMSC389R: Introduction to Ethical Hacking - woodruffw https://github.com/UMD-CS-STICs/389Rspring18 ====== rman666 How does one sign up for this course? ~~~ woodruffw We're currently teaching it at the undergraduate level at the University of Maryland, so there's no online sign-up. You can, of course, follow along wit...
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Twitter trouble - handling 11,000 requests per second w/ Rails! - joshwa http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html ====== felipe I totally agree with the concept that speed does not really matter because hardware is cheaper than programmers. And I never understood the criticism towards Ruby being slow... If it impro...
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Does Bitcoin/Blockchain make sense for international money transfers? - propter_hoc https://www.saveonsend.com/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-money-transfer/ ====== MrMorden Goods/services purchased from a business? Given the fees for completing a Bitcoin transaction, I'd say no unless you start getting into at least mid thr...
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Marissa Mayer's life as a working mom has nothing to do with you - dsr12 http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/30/attention-women-marissa-mayers-life-as-a-working-mom-has-nothing-to-do-with-you/ ====== dennisgorelik Unexpected quote from Marissa, mentioning "God": [http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2012/11/28/15509672-for- ma...
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WebAudioFont – 400 musical instruments for JavaScript - sss1024 https://github.com/surikov/webaudiofont ====== sss1024 Bunch of musical instruments for web applications. Guitars, pianos, drums etc.
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Of Courics and User Experience - jakequist http://quist.co/post/6112422007/the-fundamental-theorem-of-user-experience ====== jlind I've lost count of the number of times that I have left a website simply because they wanted me to provide some sort of information before I saw what they actually had to offer. Also a ...
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AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail - turoczy http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/appfog-wants-to-do-for-developer-platforms-what-google-did-for-email/ ====== redslazer Im really not sure about the pricing model. Here are a couple of points: There are tons of people looking for $5 vps th...
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Facebook Live: Now You Can Never Leave - keiferski http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/facebook-live-now-you-can-never-leave ====== wallflower From the article about Facebook Live > If anything, Live further exposes Facebook’s active, seemingly unquenchable > thirst for more ways to become the middleman in you...
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The Great Jeff Dean, who is he? - webdisrupt http://www.quora.com/Jeff-Dean/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts ====== ahazred8ta Technically, that should be 405 Method Not Allowed O:-)
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Snapchat has reportedly filed confidentially for its massive IPO - coloneltcb https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/snapchat-has-reportedly-filed-confidentially-for-its-massive-ipo/ ====== taytus I'm a professional photographer with about 16K + Instagram followers. I used snapchat to stream behind the scenes photos and v...
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NSA Chief: Terrorists Using Leaked Info [video] - wikiburner http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp=52539269&#52539269 ====== jacquesm If there is one thing these leaks have done then it is to register in the mind of the general public that these institutions are not just benign clubs of mathematicians that boldly crac...
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The merger of Dell and EMC stems from the rise of cloud computing - jimsojim http://www.economist.com/news/business/21673523-clouded-marriage-merger-dell-and-emc-more-proof-it-industry-shifting ====== motdiem Although this merger seems to be mostly about infrastructure, I wonder how it will impact applications groups ...
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Money Creation in the Modern Economy (2014) [pdf] - rfreytag http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q102.pdf ====== cs702 IMHO, the easiest way for an engineer to understand "money" is as a _network of debits and credits_. Forget theory, ideology, and politics for a moment. L...
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Ask HN: What’s the hardest part about learning and using mental models? - febin ====== doomerjk Learning them is bloody hard, personally - there are a ton of established ones to keep track of and I at times find myself trying hard to remember them vs. just moving forward and building my own. That said this book has he...
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Canada's Quiet Weakening of Communications Encryption - fraqed https://citizenlab.org/2015/08/canadas-quiet-history-of-weakening-communications-encryption/ ====== tptacek _As a result, DUAL EC DRBG has been incorporated into a range of products, including those from security company RSA, in operating systems such as M...
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Sticker shock over Seattle's new sugary drink tax - Shivetya http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/sticker-shock-over-seattles-new-sugary-drink-tax/677490924 ====== smoyer I broadly agree that we americans consume too much sugar but I'm worried that many will find drinking artificial sweeteners as detrimental as I have. Som...
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Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams - rglovejoy http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123093987596650197.html ====== tokenadult "After I wrote my book, I lost a good chunk of my retirement savings to Mr. Madoff, so I know of what I write on the most personal level." Now there's a backhanded endorsement of a book by its...
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Wind Shortage? - lilbarbarian http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/is-there-a-wind-shortage.html ====== JorgeGT All that wind farms weren't free, we were robbing Earth's angular momentum!
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Ask HN: How can I make Hacker Newsletter better? - duck Last year I doubled the subscriber count for Hacker Newsletter[0] to 14,000 and my goal for 2013 is to double it again. To accomplish that, I have several ideas I'm working on, but thought I would check here as well since the newsletter exists because of this c...
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How to Reject Engineering Candidates - tacon http://code.dblock.org/2013/05/26/how-to-reject-engineering-candidates.html ====== morgante Please don't do this. I actually find these example emails much _more_ insulting than the generic "we're going in a different direction" emails. The reason I prefer the generic emai...
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Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away from Your IP Address - ca98am79 http://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-anonymity-box-puts-mile-away-ip-address/?mbid=nl_070115 ====== noonespecial I'm sure there's plenty of use cases for this... but I personally can't think of anything I can do online that would make the autho...
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“Return of the Obra Dinn” Development Log - mercer https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0 ====== sp332 I know it's in giant letters across the top, but because of "banner blindness" I missed the link to the preview build: [https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg123810...](https://forums.ti...
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Ruth Porat Brings Wall Street Discipline to Google - gwallens http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-23/google-cfo-ruth-porat-brings-fiscal-discipline ====== pcurve I'd be very curious to know from Googlers, at what cost this was achieved. There is always price for everything. $65 billion wasn't pulled out o...
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The Art of the Interpreter -- Steele and Sussman [pdf] - johnm http://www.scribd.com/vacuum?url=ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-453.pdf ====== soundsop This is the sort of ugly typesetting that spurred Knuth to create TeX. ~~~ cheponis Is this your opinion, or do you have evidence of this (for e...
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Sharing Fortune Android Game Source Code - dm991 https://github.com/dm-notroll/fortune-game-android ====== dm991 Feel free to download and unzip, this is source code of a very famous app of the biggest company in Japan.
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Battle for the Internet - anigbrowl https://www.battleforthenet.com/ ====== Clanan Can someone please respond to the actual pro-repeal arguments (in a non-John- Oliver-smug way)? Everyone is focusing on "woe is the unfree internet!" which seems like a spoonfed, naive response with no content. And just having Google et...
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Learning CSS - mrmrs http://xn--h4hg.ws/2015/07/20/learning-css/ ====== kzisme Nice post! It's cool to see someone I follow on Twitter actively writing blogs - and posting on HN. I've reached out to you in the past about CSS & vim before. ------ serve_yay Not mentioned: read a book
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I'm (Re)Learning C Before It's Too Late - RawData http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/im-relearning-the-c-programming-language.html ====== dguaraglia Back in the day I used LCC-Win32 as my main development platform. It was rather cool to have such a nice compiler/IDE for free. Extremely fast, produced small binaries, had...
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How to Criticize with Kindness: The Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently - lwhsiao https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/ ====== kp1 An alt to this would be reading "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
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Ask HN: Could you build a startup around this "crowdfunding" model? - callmeed http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/ ====== callmeed OP here. Read about this company on TC and found what they did interesting. Just wondering if you could build a simple startup around this model. I have a friend in finance who ha...
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Spacex to Send Privately Crewed Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year (2017) - themakermark https://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year ====== themakermark [https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14754404/spacex-moon- miss...](https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/2...
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Using Trello to Keep Track of Ideas - feint http://feint.me/articles/keeping-track-of-ideas ====== nathos Personally, I've found Workflowy [[https://workflowy.com](https://workflowy.com)] to be indispensable not just for keeping track of ideas, but for then turning those ideas into something real. Loads in any brow...
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Longreads Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing - stablemap https://longreads.com/2017/12/27/longreads-best-of-2017-science-technology-and-business-writing/ ====== dang Lists are rarely interesting in their own right, so it's much better to pick the best article or two and submit those. Some of them ...
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KDevelop 5.3.3 Released - cullmann https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-533-released ====== dTal A bugfix release, so not that interesting. However it's an opportunity for me to express my gratitude to the KDevelop team for producing such a fine IDE. Its Python static analysis plugin is first rate and extremely conv...
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Ask HN: I Want To Buy a $1k-5k/yr SAAS Business. Where Do I Start? - Terpaholic Flippa has been okay for browsing niche websites, but I&#x27;m interested in buying a SAAS business and there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much on the market.<p>Are there any other good places to look for buying a small (like $1K-$5K in reven...
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Flickr censorship - abstractbill http://thomashawk.com/2007/05/flickr-censorship.html?repost ====== abstractbill Apparently though, it was a mistake rather than censorship: <http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/40074/#reply212150>
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Has Cosmology Run into a Creative Crisis? - benbreen http://aeon.co/magazine/science/has-cosmology-run-into-a-creative-crisis/ ====== robinsloan This is fantastic: "When you read that word cosmos, you might begin to imagine the most expansive physical world your mind can build. Deep fields of glittering, star-filled ...
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Time-lapse: Package shipped with a hidden camera - morphics http://flowingdata.com/2013/04/18/time-lapse-package-shipped-with-a-hidden-camera/ ====== ColinWright The original post, containing more details and more commentary, and by the person who actually did it, is here: <http://www.rubenvandervleuten.com/AtoB.ht...
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Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks (2012) - jonbaer https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/technical-sessions/presentation/bojinov ====== cbd1984 It's interesting, but it opens up a rather unsettling counter-countermeasure: If I'm Mallet, I don't want people using passwords I c...
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Custom splash page & personal analytics dashboard - sumeetjain http://about.me ====== petervandijck Prefer that on my own domain, like this <http://petervandijck.com/> ~~~ wccrawford I agree. Some kind of API to put this on your own domain would be really nice.
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Ember.js Live Collections - wycats http://awardwinningfjords.com/2011/12/27/emberjs-collections.html ====== moe _Assuming that Bocoup simply chose Backbone.js for familiarity's sake_ The tone of this post seems a bit dishonest. There are plenty obvious reasons for not choosing Ember today: It's young, it's not pro...
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Arnold Renderer - boulos https://www.solidangle.com ====== boulos After years of working on Arnold and saying it could use a website, it's finally up. If you're unfamiliar with Arnold, the about page has a useful history: https://www.solidangle.com/about and of the 5 movies up for the VFX Osca...
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Adobe Drops Licensing Fees, Gives Away Flash For Devices - nickb http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/adobe-drops-lic.html ====== swombat This was published back in April?? Weird, I hadn't heard of it. ------ tuukkah The Flash Player is still proprietary, and Gnash is far from being a full replacement. Hopefull...
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A True Story - benbreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story ====== OscarCunningham Lucian also wrote the earliest known version of _The Sorcerer 's Apprentice_, which I view as the ur-example of an "AI rebellion" storyline. A programmer is harmed by their creation not because it goes against their orders but be...
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