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Ask HN: Are non-free Slack Communities worth the cost? - geekuillaume Hi HN ! I see a lot of Slack based communities annonced here. A lot of them aren&#x27;t free. Are they worth the cost ? Could you share with us your exepriences ?<p>Thanks and have a good day ! ====== phantom_oracle I've never seen this, but I thi...
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Bill Burr regrets 2003 password recommendation report - cratermoon https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-wrote-those-password-rules-has-a-new-tip-n3v-r-m1-d-1502124118?mod=e2tw ====== iokevins The article seems arising in reference to the NIST SP800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines, published June 22, 2017: [https...
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Ask HN: What's the best programming language to learn for security? - patrickgv I&#x27;m talking about all these firms that specialise in security for companies. If I wanted to work at one of these, what programming language would I need to know?<p>I assume it would be something like C++, but I don&#x27;t know.<p>On a...
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CakePHP Website Returning HTTP Error 502 - jasondrowley Is anyone else having problems accessing the site? ====== adamjleonard Time to learn a new framework! Down for me also
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Trump administration lifts ban on pesticides linked to declining bee numbers - pera https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/04/trump-administration-lifts-ban-on-pesticides-linked-to-declining-bee-numbers ====== sschueller So this is lifting a ban on the use on wildlife refuges. The use anywhere else in the US...
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Remember the Million Dollar Homepage? Here's a 3D Successor, Redone in WebGL - jumprite https://www.milliondollarmetropolis.com/# ====== masonic [https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jumprite](https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jumprite) ~~~ jumprite You got me :(. It doesn’t seem to be catching on just y...
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New Stealth Spy Drone Already Flying Over Area 51 - electic http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/12/new-stealth-drone/ ====== WestCoastJustin As a side note: Aviation Week is an incredible magazine. Next time you are at the magazine rack, be sure to check it out. Our office has a subscription and it just blows me away...
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Notes on the Google SRE book - ingve https://danluu.com/google-sre-book/ ====== MoBattah I had sent an email to my team last week about the book. I'll pass this on, thank you.
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Michael Schumacher out of coma and released from hospital - init0 http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/16/sport/motorsport/michael-schumacher-condition/ ====== goddamnsteve Finally!
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Scanimage: Scan from the Command Line - ingve https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/11/scanimage--scan-from-the-command-line/ ====== dvh Few years ago friend gave me a broken scanner. In Windows it always said "Paper jammed". I opened it and just wanted to short paper sensor, but this scanner was too "smart". Instead of single...
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"The digital age consumes more paper, not less." - pius http://www.43folders.com/comment/337116/Paperless ====== gibsonf1 I know this isn't the case at my Architecture firm. When we do get paper in the office (snail mail, etc), we scan it (pdf) into our system and put the original in a box in sequential order for easy...
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JetBrains offering 75% off all products/upgrades for "Mayan End of World" Sale - lucian303 http://www.jetbrains.com/specials/index.jsp Can't beat that. ====== Narretz Well, their website crashes all my mobile browsers on Android 4.0 (Chrome, Opera Mobile, Firefox)
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SendHub (YC W12) Launches Shared Groups - Keep your team's contacts synced - ashrust http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/16/sendhub-takes-on-google-voice-with-debut-of-shared-groups-grabs-new-investment-from-former-florida-gov-jeb-bush/ ====== bryanh I must say, SendHub and co have done a pretty remarkable job. Their prod...
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How did Apple’s AirPods go from mockery to millennial status symbol? - rusk https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2019/feb/10/how-did-apples-airpods-go-from-mockery-to-millennial-status-symbol ====== 0_gravitas Memes are a very bad metric to measure what is or isn't a "status symbol" ------ anthonys Becaus...
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Commercial Drone Rules to Limit Their Weight, Speed and Altitude - nkrumm http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/15/386464188/commercial-drone-rules-to-limit-their-speed-and-altitude?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews ====== transfire "relatively benign"? These restrictio...
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How To Develop A Basic Operating System On The Raspberry Pi - pepsi_can http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/?test=true ====== jws Unfortunately, with modern hardware a "build an OS" tutorial goes nicely in small steps, until you hit "need a USB stack to get input". Suddenly you are in the land...
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Walmart data Leaked by 5CR1PT K1DD135 - GeekTech http://geektech.in/archives/1763 ====== cjzhang _In the leak file u will fine_ Really?
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Show HN: A distributed Recommendation Engine based on Redis + Ruby (and C) - paulasmuth https://github.com/paulasmuth/recommendify ====== jamii I've been working on something similar - <https://github.com/jamii/springer- recommendations> All the open-source engines I've tried scale poorly. Since our input data alr...
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Facebook’s grand plan for the future - beeker http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/57933bb8-fcd9-11df-ae2d-00144feab49a.html#axzz17BFI1gMU ====== codelust Facebook is the big story of the decade, but I wish publications who do these puff pieces do a better job for covering the company. The quote below is enlightening: "This ...
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Ask HN: What charities do you donate to? - null_ptr ====== pg Yours! ([http://ycombinator.com/np.html](http://ycombinator.com/np.html)) ------ ajslater I'd love to donate to an organization who's charter was ending the drug war, but I'm not sure I know of one specifically like that. I suppose NORML might be an obvious...
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Don't Be An Ass About Airport Security - Trey-Jackson http://www.slate.com/id/2276166 ====== RiderOfGiraffes Dup from days ago: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974192>
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How Information Got Re-Invented - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/how-information-got-re_invented ====== eggpy Another decent in-depth book on this topic that I can recommend is The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick[0]. A bit dry at times but somewhat interesting if anyone is looking f...
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I Don't Want to be a Teacher Any More - hypersoar http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/26/950079/-I-Dont-Want-to-be-a-Teacher-Any-More ====== noonespecial There is a serious moral hazard faced by most administrators of the so called "heroic professions" (doctors, nurses, teachers, fire-fighters etc). The trouble is t...
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Milton Friedman's Free To Choose - pinchyfingers http://www.freetochoose.tv/ ====== hebejebelus I hate sites that don't tell me what they are at first glance. I don't know what this is and I'm not going to watch a video to find out. I am an average user with a short attention span, and I'd give you advice on targeti...
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WireGuard Merged into OpenBSD - axiomdata316 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=159274150512676&w=2 ====== zx2c4 WireGuard project announcement is here: [https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-June/005588...](https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-June/005588.html) ~~~ riobard What's the performan...
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AI can help recession-proof your company - sg_gabriel https://blog.saleswhale.com/4-ways-ai-can-help-recession-proof-your-company ====== sg_gabriel After researching over 100+ companies globally on how they weathered the 2008 global financial crisis, I noticed they deployed four common strategies. I wrote an article ...
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Ask HN: What has been your worst onboarding experience as a customer? - DanBC I&#x27;m having a pretty lousy experience at the moment trying to become a customer of British Gas (a utility company in the UK).<p>It&#x27;s such a painful experience that I&#x27;m going to pay extra to join a different company.<p>And it ma...
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More than 1,000 pupils penalised for phones in GCSE and A-level exams - Cbasedlifeform https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/05/students-cheating-mobile-phones-gcse-exams-a-levels-2017 ====== qubex How could anybody possibly ‘smuggle’ a smartphone into an exam hall and hope to get away with it? Back when I to...
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Parking startup – never pay for parking again - joshuaabr https://valet.launchaco.com ====== masonic $2/hour car rental? It costs five times as much to rent a scooter! ~~~ joshuaabr Since we are charging both sides of the marketplace here, it's feasible. It's actually quite funny, when we tested the pricing, more peo...
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Buggy Dice.com Scraper that Requires a Profile? Not Good. - rwolf http://www.vitruva.com/ ====== rwolf Indeed.com's results for today (for me, at least) are all from this site. I spotted a job I wanted, jumped through 30 minutes of hoops setting up a mandatory profile, only to get bounced to a removed dice.com listi...
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Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard - omegaworks http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-costs-20170604-htmlstory.html ====== csmark The USA has ~5% of the world's population but 22% of the world's prisoners. Financial profiting from prisoners: Prison Labor - paid $0.93-0.16/hr ...
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Blub by Convention (In Defense of Arc) - jonnytran http://plpatterns.com/post/231830654/blub-by-convention-in-defense-of-arc ====== raganwald The author seems sensitive to the argument that Arc is "just" a bunch of macros. To me saying that Arc is "just" macros is like saying that Haskell is "just" a translator that r...
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Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behind bars - areski http://rt.com/news/navalny-verdict-court-guilty-234/ ====== eps One man's "anti-corruption blogger" is another man's the "US-funded shit- stirring puppet". It's not all exactly black and white, but it _is_ 100% political. ~~~ wwosik I don't k...
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Announcing the winners of 'Reddit Donate' - MilnerRoute http://www.redditblog.com/2015/02/announcing-winners-of-reddit-donate.html ====== Igglyboo Surprised to see the amount of hate in the reddit comments. A lot of "this charity deserves it more than this charity" going on. ~~~ ivraatiems I'm not surprised, and to...
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Nissan driverless car guilty of “close pass” overtake of UK cyclist - bootload http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/nissan-driverless-car-guilty-of-close-pass-overtake-of-uk-cyclist/020846 ====== kalleboo The car clearly identified the bicyclist, so this just seems like poor training/rules, which is easy enough to fix. I...
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How to make fake data look meaningful - birken http://danbirken.com/statistics/2013/11/19/ways-to-make-fake-data-look-meaningful.html ====== simonsarris A great method for spotting (or at least suspecting) fake data is to see if it follows Benford's law. (So remember to fit your fake data to conform!) [http://en.wiki...
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Ask HN: should I care about losing karma points? - websitescenes So apparently my ideas are very unpopular and I always get down votes. Does this matter or should I keep speaking my mind? ====== tptacek Here are two comments you wrote that were downvoted, where you subsequently complained about being downvoted: _T...
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Ask HN: What language should I develop in? - ashread I&#x27;m currently working on an idea for a community management app and as I&#x27;m not technical. I was wondering what the pros and cons are of developing in a certain language. Languages that have been recommended so far include; Ruby, PHP and Python.<p>Any advic...
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UK phone network TalkTalk has received ransom demand after attack - callumlocke http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/23/talktalk-cyber-attack-company-has-received-ransom-demand ====== merah Pastebin message reported to be from the hackers [1] contains Islamic State references/language and some samples of the d...
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Ask HN: Do you vote? - chishaku Why or why not? ====== cauterized Yes. If I didn't vote, what incentive whatsoever would my representatives have to act in my interest? I may not have a statistically significant impact on the outcome, but neither do any of the other tens of millions of people who vote. Even if an indiv...
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It is not hard to edit Lisp code - rgtos http://yoo2080.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/it-is-not-hard-to-edit-lisp-code/ ====== escherize Automating the manipulation of S-expressions (i.e. via Paredit) makes quick, controlled edits feel almost like a second sense. I've found it to be the most painful part of going back to...
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Bruce Schneier: Has U.S. started an Internet war? - Titanous http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/18/opinion/schneier-cyberwar-policy/index.html ====== mtgx I've long suspected 90% of the budgets and bills they are trying to pass is to help them _offensively_ against other countries. And yet, 100% of their arguments in publ...
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U.S. Border Agency Lets Other Units Use Its Drones - anaptdemise http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/business/us-border-agency-is-a-frequent-lender-of-its-drones.html?_r=0 ====== anaptdemise If they are so under utilized that they can be lent out, why even have them? Just from in terms of budget, this disappoints me. ...
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Ubuntu Rolling Release Proposal - hotice https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-February/036537.html ====== moxie What's interesting is that they are in part re-creating the original problem they were trying to solve. The complaints about Debian were that they only cut a release like every two years. T...
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Charles Kao, Nobel laureate who revolutionized fiber optics, has died - pseudolus https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/obituaries/charles-kuen-kao-dead.html ====== ggm Amazing stuff. At Leeds university in the computer sciences department in the 1980s we had a Head of Department who was in laser physics/photonics. I am ...
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Getting Started with Vim: The Basics – Opensource.com - axiomdata316 https://opensource.com/article/19/3/getting-started-vim ====== ksaj This is a good intro. But I don't understand why the author says in the Searching section: "In the image below, the colon is missing but required." when in fact the picture is correc...
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Toronto Advisor Resigns Over Data Concerns with Google's Smart City Project - severine https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3km74w/google-smart-city-in-toronto-advisor-resigns-data-privacy ====== severine I wonder how GDPR compliant are the many "smart city" projects across the European Union, anyone has info on...
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Magnus Carlsen buys chess platform Chessable.com - akbarnama https://www.ft.com/content/c2a4b3a0-cd8b-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f ====== bookofjoe [http://archive.is/Ofjn7](http://archive.is/Ofjn7)
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The Real Reason the U.S. Has Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance - rafaelc https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-the-us-has-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.html?mabReward=CTS2&recid=7a8dd53f-90e3-496a-53a6-1d1d718a777a&recp=2&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src...
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MacKenzie Bezos gives 75% AMZN and voting rights, relinquish WaPo and BOI - mzs https://twitter.com/mackenziebezos/status/1113851260040503296 ====== mzs [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-04/jeff- bezo...](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-04/jeff-bezos-to- keep-75-of-his-amazon-stock-in-di...
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Carte Blanche – isolated development space with integrated fuzz testing - tilt https://github.com/carteb/carte-blanche ====== randompotato The UI looks very similar to the Cosmos project ([https://github.com/skidding/cosmos](https://github.com/skidding/cosmos)). Could you outline the main differences and the motivati...
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FBI Kept Demanding Email Records Despite DOJ Saying It Needed a Warrant - ryan_j_naughton https://theintercept.com/2016/06/02/fbi-kept-demanding-email-records-despite-doj-saying-it-needed-a-warrant/ ====== themartorana _" In 2008, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the FBI was only entitle...
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A final proposal for Rust await syntax - gaogao https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/await-decision/ ====== jkarneges I figure the reason the proposed syntax looks gross is because other languages have been using a prefixed await for many years. The Rust decision seems well thought out though, enough to make me wonder if...
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Are the new TLDs really black holes for SEO? - limeblack So I have read this article by Google http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchengineland.com&#x2F;google-explains-how-they-handle-the-new-top-level-domains-tlds-225671 which states &quot;There are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in ...
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Ask HN: Yak-Shaving Methodologies - arsalanb For those of you who follow Zed Shaws &quot;Learn X the Hard Way&quot; series, the term &quot;Yak Shaving&quot; might sound familiar, but for those of you that don&#x27;t — <p>&gt;&quot;“Yak shaving” is a programmer’s slang term for the distance between a task’s start and...
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The First Webcam Was Invented to Check Coffee Levels Without Getting Up - 1cvmask https://petapixel.com/2013/04/03/the-first-webcam-was-invented-to-check-coffee-levels-without-getting-up/ ====== WaitWaitWha This sounds false at first, because I am thinking "wait, this had to be much earlier, I mean that's like yestery...
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An onslaught of pills, hundreds of thousands of deaths: Who is accountable? - howard941 https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/an-onslaught-of-pills-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths-who-is-accountable/2019/07/20/8d85e650-aafc-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html ====== vikramkr It would be so much easier if just on...
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Ask HN: Graduate Going to College Career Fair - potatosareok I graduated college last year but still live around it for my current job. I&#x27;m considering going to some upcoming career fairs that are at my college to see what other job opportunities are available. I&#x27;m wondering is that strange? Would any comp...
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Who Rises To The Top? Early Indicators - wallflower https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/Kell-Lubinski-Benbow-20132.pdf ====== datacog Is is a very interesting research paper. Sort of something we're trying to do with this: [http://getpredikt.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/predikt- aggregate...](http://getpredikt....
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How Does Turbulence Get Started? (2014) - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/71/flow/how-does-turbulence-get-started ====== ubertakter Not exactly the best written article. I think the author was a little out of his depth. The original paper is in the arXiv: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06372#](https://arxiv.org/abs/1709....
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Canada's leading Web 2.0 pioneers - roblewis http://www.techvibes.com/blog/canadas-leading-web-2.0-pioneers ====== vaksel I just can't take any list seriously, that has a twitter app in the top 10. #10 HootSuite, Vancouver - A Twitter toolbox that manages multiple Twitter profiles ~~~ gojomo HootS...
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The World's Largest Tesla Coil? - rms http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/648673855/the-lightning-foundry ====== rms Why you should care, and why this is revolutionary science: Lightning has recently been found to generate positrons via gamma rays. This is very recent science and definitely underexplored and not ye...
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Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions? - przemoc I am not a professional musician (just played on a music keyboard for ~8 years till I stopped ~10 years ago), but sometimes various ideas flow into my mind or I want to quickly transcribe (at least some parts of) heard music. The problem is with figuring o...
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Client cheques that I rejected - janeboo https://m.oursky.com/client-cheques-that-i-rejected-7426f392d5e9 ====== wpietri One of the best things about being independent: You can't tell _everybody_ to fuck off, but you can tell _anybody_ to fuck off. That's clearly great because then you don't end up doing dumb, pointle...
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Atebits - Tweetie for Mac - yvesrn http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/ ====== yvesrn The first time I've seen that an iPhone app gets developed for the Mac. It's usually the other way around.
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Incremental Learning – A continuous learning approach (2018) - pps https://kishorepv.github.io/The-value-of-Incremental_learning/ ====== keiferski I have been personally experimenting with what I call "drip learning" \- essentially, I am trying to learn a large amount of non-urgent information very slowly, piece by pi...
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Too much fun with implantable brain electrodes - caycep https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1905240 ====== ASalazarMX Didn't know the NEJM needed clickbait too. Paper title is "Fornix-Region Deep Brain Stimulation–Induced Memory Flashbacks in Alzheimer’s Disease".
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Launching a crowdsourcing startup - praveenaj Hi, I'm planning to launch my crowd sourcing startup in a few weeks. I hope you guys will review it when I do, on HN :)<p>This will be a place for job seekers to find work by showcasing the skills they possess. (more concern on personal branding :)<p>So I'm planning to d...
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The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (1978) - Mithrandir https://archive.org/stream/cryptolog_42#page/n16/mode/1up ====== pdw Interesting that he praises the RAND editor. It's a branch of editors that has entirely died out as far as I can tell, on Unix at least. The source code for RAND E19 can still be found, but I cou...
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Porn Stars Want to Know: Why Did Facebook Delete Me? - lkrubner http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/02/porn-stars-want-to-know-why-did-facebook-delete-me.html ====== dozzie Somebody has just realized that it sucks not to have control over their own content. Facebook (or Google for that matter) provides _fr...
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Ask HN: What do you use to access HN on your phone? - charlieirish ====== Polyphonie An iPhone HN client called MiniHack. There are quite a number of these type of apps but most of them are just readers. MiniHack allows comment. ~~~ joshschreuder Just checked it out, looks good to me. I am in fact replying via the...
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Quick SEO Tip: Set Preferred Domain in Google Webmaster Tools - mdolon http://devgrow.com/quick-seo-tip-set-preferred-domain-in-google-webmaster-tools/ ====== eli If I already do the redirect, do I still need to set a preferred domain? ~~~ mdolon I did, and I think it can only help (it certainly can't hurt to). The...
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Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally - sperglord https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10191963&cid=53786433 ====== kstrauser Fascinating, but take it with a grain of salt. One anonymous poster didn't just violate, but shredded and used as hamster mulch, their NDA to report ...
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DotSpots: Spot the Truth, Connect the Dots - matt1 http://dotspots.com/#dots/ ====== Tichy I'd like to know more before signing up. But maybe that is because it is still in beta. ------ Ai02 Maybe sign up to know more?
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Ask HN: Examples of open-source projects which became closed/proprietary? - gitgud Are there any examples of Open-source projects - which for some reason - became closed-source?<p>Theoretically the project could be forked and continued as open-source, but I&#x27;m just wondering if there are many <i>known</i> cases of...
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Eligible Receiver: NSA’s successful 1997 hack of the U.S. military - secfirstmd http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/03/inside_the_nsa_s_shockingly_successful_simulated_hack_of_the_u_s_military.single.html ====== dsl This was my favorite part, and a good lesson for every startup. Skip over all th...
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Stop Using Toilet Paper - elijahparker https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/opinion/toilet-paper-hoarding-bidets.html ====== temporallobe Paywalled. Or at least you have to create a “free account” to read it. In any case one doesn’t have to read the article to understand its ridiculous premise. ~~~ mimixco Turning off ...
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A few thoughts on SSL Search - jlhamilton http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-secure-search/ ====== pwim In the post, the author mentions he doesn't want hotels or cafes snooping on his search. However, I fail to see why search is any more important than the results a user visits (which most likely will not be ssl). ...
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Efene - a little more object oriented (a language for the erlang vm) - marianoguerra http://efene.tumblr.com/post/1146316926/a-little-more-object-oriented ====== marianoguerra I'm the creator of efene, if you have any question let me know. ------ extension I like the idea of offering a choice of syntax for the same...
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It’s the beginning of the end of satellite TV in the US - rmason https://qz.com/1480089/att-just-declared-the-end-of-the-satellite-tv-era-in-the-us/ ====== bradknowles Cable TV was a way to escape the crippling hegemony of broadcast TV. Along the way, it consolidated into its own new crippling hegemony. Satellite was...
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Show HN: newsola - top news stories at a glance - kirchhoff http://www.newsola.com ====== nuttendorfer Was instantly reminded of this: <http://newsmap.jp/> ~~~ drats Seems to be a very direct clone, down to the colours, but using a different back-end system. ~~~ etcet It's a different front-end too (JS instead of Fl...
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Sheep logic – We think we are wolves but we are sheep - Melchizedek http://epsilontheory.com/sheep-logic/ ====== Nomentatus As the old saying goes, "Sheep are freer than human beings because they get to think whatever they want, just as long as the stay with the herd." [Whereas we have to herd even with our thoughts.]...
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Mercury News laying off about quarter of newsroom? - danielha http://venturebeat.com/2007/06/01/mercury-news-laying-off-about-quarter-of-newsroom/ ====== NickDouglas People from both the Merc and the Chronicle talked to me about doing work for them; I've heard both are laying off a good chunk of the staff. The inevita...
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Bitcoin Outlook Is Sunny as Creator Emerges from Shadows - _Codemonkeyism http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-02/bitcoin-outlook-is-sunny-as-creator-emerges-from-shadows-chart ====== _Codemonkeyism Looks like the mainstream business press seas Wright different than HN or Reddit.
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Ask HN: Are there any open-source projects related to cancer research? - cimi_ ====== jonjacky I worked on Prism, a radiation therapy treatment planning program. It's a physics simulation with 3D graphics and lots of data management used to customize radiation therapy treatments for each patient. It's a big system with...
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On the Security of Password Manager Database Formats (2012) [pdf] - monort https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/6487/pwvault.pdf ====== jeremyt [http://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_issues.html](http://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_issues.html) Problem. In their paper 'On The Security of Password Manager Database Formats', P. Gasti a...
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Storehouse shutting down - hturan https://www.storehouse.co/more-info ====== niftich This is the first time I'm hearing of Storehouse. Looks like they were VC backed in 2014 [1]. Looking at two reviews from 2014 [2][3], the concept seems pretty neat. Unfortunate that they didn't find a business model or a buyer. I'm...
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The 'Cuddle Hormone' Might Help America Take on the Obesity Epidemic - pseudolus https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/04/oxytocin-obesity-treatment/587533/ ====== lkadr I have fibromyalgia, which is characterised by chronic pain caused by muscle tension. Out of all the methods I've tried to limit pain, from...
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How Much MBA Grads Are Paid at Startup Jobs - Mitchhhs http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2017/03/29/heres-the-salary-equity-bonus-mba-grads-make-at-startups/ ====== meri_dian I understand that MBA's can command high salaries, so they're helpful for the degree holder in that sense, but how useful is the degree beyond ju...
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Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012? - csomar This year we saw interesting things in technology and considerable improvement in the Web related tech.<p>What are your predictions for 2012? Not limited only to the startup world, but any prediction worth mentioning. ====== da02 * More solar energy startups go bankrupt or...
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WikiReader - $99 E-ink offline Wikipedia reader that runs on 2 AAAs - blasdel http://thewikireader.com/index.html ====== tamersalama Not sure how this would compete with other mobile devices. disconnected state? battery life? unifunction? ~~~ ajuc On the site there is info that batterylife is 1 year on "normal usag...
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Ask HN: Why is HN down so frequently? - rankam Apologies if this has been asked and answered before, but HN seems to be down quite frequently and I am curious as to why. For instance, I visited earlier today and it was down. However, I rarely see any other sites that I frequent offline, though I will admit I visit HN ...
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Microsoft completes aquisition of Yammer - justauser http://blog.yammer.com/blog/2012/07/yammer-starts-a-new-chapter-as-part-of-microsoft.html How long will they keep on a Java stack before converting over to Dot Net? ====== justauser How long before Yammer moves off of Java and on to DotNet?
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I haven’t had a smartphone for more than two years…and it’s been great - alexwoodcreates http://www.thememo.com/2015/06/24/i-havent-had-a-smartphone-for-more-than-two-yearsand-its-been-great/ ====== monroepe I have never had a smartphone. Keyboard phones ftw. ------ bpolania I have had a smartphone for the last 6 y...
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YUI Version 2.2.0 Released - bootload http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/02/20/yui-220-released/ ====== jaggederest Bit old news isn't it? I've been playing with this since march. It's good stuff, especially the CSS files make it easy to really define what you want. Not as sure about the javascript, myself, but then I have...
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W^X policy violation affects Windows drivers compiled in VS 2013 and previous - mmastrac https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/wx-policy-violation-affecting-all-windows-drivers-compiled-in-visual-studio-2013-and-previous/ ====== munin ugh. At the root, this issue is probably an oversight. Understanding why ...
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Amazon Maps API - taylorbuley https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/maps.html ====== cek And so the fragmentation of mobile platforms accelerates along the services axis. [1] Amazon attempts to ease the pain by offering "interface parity" with the Google Maps API, but there are significant functional differences. We are ...
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Don’t stop calling yourself a UX designer – it’s working - primigenus http://blog.handcraft.com/2011/08/dont-stop-calling-yourself-a-ux-designer-its-working/ ====== timr _"If it’s becoming cool, then sure, you’ve got the hipster crowd who like to go about saying they were designing UX before anyone had heard of it. ...
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Ask HN: Code School for an Experience Project Manager? - __throwmeaway So I&#x27;m going to ask yet another one of these annoying questions....<p>My background: I&#x27;ve got a degree in engineering management w&#x2F; a specialization in Industrial Engineering. I&#x27;ve been in the software&#x2F;hardware world for ...
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A 1950s egg farm that hatched a business incubator - rbanffy https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-1950s-egg-farm-hatched-the-modern-startup-incubator/?mbid=social_tw_backchannel ====== Retric Are there any real successes from the Incubator that includes office space model vs just cash?
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