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Proposed SF law could force tech workers to actually go out for lunch - stevetodd https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tech-industry-s-coveted-office-cafeterias-could-13101014.php ====== gaouj Yes, let's ban lunch pails too, so you can't bring your own lunch
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Pinteresting way to surf youtube... - nikhilaitharaju What if pinterest and youtube met and had a trademark violating baby? Built it in 4 hours. Check out http://www.pintube.tv/ ====== hackthatshit pretty cool stuff ~~~ nikhilaitharaju thanks :)
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A foundation for scikit-learn at Inria - fermigier http://gael-varoquaux.info/programming/a-foundation-for-scikit-learn-at-inria.html ====== hetspookjee Scikit-learn is a very nicely written library and I can use plenty of superlatives to describe the wonderous API of scikit-learn. One thing I can't recommend enough ...
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For Law School Graduates, Debts if Not Job Offers - chailatte http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html ====== kylelibra This is an area which seems ripe for innovation. I can understand why most of the schools wouldn't want a third party firm to independently collect this data. ------ Maven911 I am sup...
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How con artists trick your mind - schrofer http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141003-the-mind-tricks-of-scammers ====== Jun8 The quote from Teller pretty much sums up the situation: "You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to inve...
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An Introduction to Web Sockets - zeroxsys http://bigbangtechnology.com/post/an_introduction_to_web_sockets ====== pornel For non-games usually Server-Sent Events (<http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/>) may be simpler to use: • it's pure HTTP, message format is dead simple ("data: payload\n\n") • browser handles n...
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Any one had any luck bying broken GPUs from eBay? - tapper Just asking because I have seen a RX580 on Ebay that said that it works but resets when installing the drivers. This sounds to me like just like a botched install of windows or a heat sink that needs reseting. I was thinking that it could be a cheep card to t...
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Show HN: Senzu – collection of robo advisors, p2p lending and more - kilimchoi https://senzu.io/investing ====== qwrusz I definitely think investing is confusing to some folks, especially when just starting out it can be intimidating. There's a huge opportunity for new tech ideas and solutions to help clarify and simp...
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This is a news website article about a scientific paper (2010) - blubbi2 https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1#comments ====== smaddox Spot on. Kudos to The Guardian. I didn't know they did parody/satire. I like them more and more with each article I read.
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Tech giants are becoming defenders of democracy. Now what? - tonyztan https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-facebook-tech-giants-defending-democracy/ ====== mtgx Did Wired miss the Google memo?
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A brief note: Why Silver was tripped up on Trump - JackPoach https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/756127724389867520 ====== SixSigma Take a look at Nate Plastic's Trump headlines [http://imgur.com/ZVbDMXh.jpg](http://imgur.com/ZVbDMXh.jpg)
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GitHub Is Down - andretti1977 https://github.com/ ====== Frost1x If only there was a version control system for distributed software development that wasn't completely reliant on a centralized client-server model and frequent check-ins. ~~~ sairamkunala git enables that. git is a dvcs. centralized Github is your bott...
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What would happen if you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider - ecaron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMqPT6oKJ8 ====== ecaron Short answer: They don't know. Longer answer. It won't be good, but it might not kill you - probably won't give you superpowers. But nobody's going to let you try anyway. ------ Rid...
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Show HN: Hunter – Lag-free terminal file browser in Rust - rabito https://github.com/rabite0/hunter ====== octobanana This looks neat, I'll give it a go later today. One of the features I use Ranger for is to visually select multiple music files and then open them with mpv to play. Would that be something Hunter supp...
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Herd immunity: will the UK's coronavirus strategy work? - pseudolus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/herd-immunity-will-the-uks-coronavirus-strategy-work ====== WheelsAtLarge This is a very dangerous strategy, given the 10% to 20% of the infected cases that will need hospitalization. I would also worry ab...
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IM aggregator eBuddy catches up to Meebo in popularity, claims nearly 10x more revenue - paulsb http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/15/im-aggregator-ebuddy-catches-up-to-meebo-in-popularity-claims-nearly-10x-more-revenue/ ====== rms >While Meebo focuses on putting chatrooms all over the web with their Meebo Rooms product —...
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User finds crypto miner in “free” 3D modeling software - rrauenza https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/bsnez3/psa_gentleman_in_creality_fb_group_discovers/ ====== rrauenza Quoting: _little blurb about it on the CEO 's linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafael-lima- ab97a860/de](https://www.linkedin.com/in...
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About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in, 1997-2011 - chl http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/05/remembrance_of_links_past/ ====== patio11 There is an easy way to increase your detection of redirects and parked pages: make two requests, one to the real URL and one to a URL which is intentionally broken. (e...
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Things I learned dealing with psychopaths in startups - algirau https://medium.com/@AlexanderGirau/7-things-i-learned-dealing-with-psychopaths-in-startups-baaae513ee03#.8mg2rovpt ====== p4wnc6 To me, this article reads as an excuse for the company to behave in a sociopathic way, and then turn around and try to pin the...
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Ledger-autosync: get transactions from your bank and add them to your ledger - ashitlerferad https://gitlab.com/egh/ledger-autosync ====== ashitlerferad [http://plaintextaccounting.org/](http://plaintextaccounting.org/) ------ billconan I briefly looked at the introduction. I'm curious how does app link mint work? i...
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From RSS to sharing on social networks - phantomjs? - agilord How would you automate posting the title / description / short url of your blog posts to your Facebook / Twitter / Google+ / ... pages? The sites we are sponsoring or helping with have 10+ RSS feeds and 30+ possible social network page destinations.<p>Doe...
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IE6 in the browser - bound008 http://app.cloudinternetexplorer.com/ ====== cobychapple Whoever has made this RDP server publicly accessible (if that's what this is) sure is brave—I'll bet that it's ridden with viruses, popups, and other nastiness in no time. Also, I get IE9, not IE6.
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That Old Phone Trump Uses for Twitter Could Be an Opening to Security Threats - poindontcare https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/technology/donald-trump-phone-social-media-security.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur ====== icomefromreddit From the article: > _Could be_... _could be_... _but it’s unclear_... _could be_... ...
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Show HN: Open source Deep Learning Background removal service - burgalon Me and my colleague have been working on a small POC for Background removal. We used semantic segmentation trained on selfies, and documented the process of training and deploying a Keras model with Docker, Heroku and a Gitlab CI in 3 posts:<p><a...
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Ask HN: Has anyone moved to Canada? - marrone12 Hi, my girlfriend is a Canadian citizen and eventually wants to move back. I work as a data scientist manager in tech and make good money. How have people found the move to Canada in terms of salary, opportunity, and interesting companies to work for compared to American...
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Google invests $1M in pedal-powered monorail pods - blparker http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/12/shweeb.urban.transport/index.html?hpt=C2 ====== RiderOfGiraffes Lots of comments from over a week ago: \+ <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1762998> Earlier submission of exactly this item: \+ <http://new...
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1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami - rambunco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami ====== nl US Geological Survey done at the time, with photos and eyewitness accounts: [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0354c/report.pdf](http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0354c/report.pdf) ------ lifeisstillgood It's seems it's not this ev...
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Chinese Economy Is Showing Signs of a Slowdown - timr http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/business/worldbusiness/07yuan.html?hp ====== biohacker42 How could it NOT show signs of a slowdown. But China, unlike the US, is sitting on mountains of savings - cash. They can and most likely will spend their way to at least an ...
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The Popular Request Module Is Going into Maintenance Mode(nodejs) - ausjke https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 ====== ausjke Alternatives: [https://github.com/request/request/issues/3143](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3143)
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From Art School to SE Researcher at Microsoft - madamdo https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/from-art-school-to-microsoft-research/ ====== lsinger Especially the beginning where she recounts how she enrolled in a computer science university program without owning I found super interesting. I wonder if one cou...
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Hack Back – A DIY guide to those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers - anirudhrata http://data.langly.fr/blackhat ====== Eiriksmal This article was quite fascinating. It's impressive that a series of small security holes culminate with the release of sensitive software. It's equally interesting that all th...
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Lenovo laptops “refuse” to install Linux - xufi http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37431299 ====== sigmar >"I understand why the buyers feel aggrieved and surprised," said Chris Green, an analyst at the business consultancy Lewis. "But at the same time they bought a machine with a pre-installed version of an operating...
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Getting a Job in Tech Without a Tech Background - mattragland https://medium.com/the-blog-of-matt-ragland/you-gotta-have-skills-df962f3ea4d6 ====== mattragland I'm always curious about how people without technical backgrounds are getting jobs in tech. What are some of the best ways you have found or seen others doing ...
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TagTime: Stochastic Time Tracking for Space Cadets (2011) - Tomte http://messymatters.com/tagtime/ ====== themmes This brought me to the article by Joel Spolsky (Evidence based scheduling) [1] and then to the Reporter app created by Nick Feltron [2]. Apps following this method all seem dated or not maintained anymore ...
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Was it worth paying €41.7bn to bail out Irish banks? - howard941 https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/was-it-worth-paying-41-7bn-to-bail-out-irish-banks-1.4036792 ====== zarro Part of the problem is too much centralization of the control of $. This arrangement could be fine if people (and companies) ...
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Guy Kawasaki interviewed about Truemors on "On The Road With iV" - CoreyK http://www.clubenetwork.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=220 ====== DarrenStuart the Joel Spolsky one is really good to listen to. He has some good advice.
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XJST - Extensible JavaScript Transformations: simple, rapid, expressive - indutny https://github.com/veged/xjst ====== indutny Is there any reason for this post to be downvoted?
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All your Google activity - amingilani https://myactivity.google.com ====== grzm Discussion from less than a day ago with over 80 comments: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16685179](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16685179) ~~~ amingilani Thanks for you pointing this out! I must've missed this and posted i...
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Clojure beta book now available - socratees http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/11/5/clojure-beta-book-available ====== whacked_new It's been a while since I felt great excitement about a language! ------ jdunck Success running based on steps here: <http://bc.tech.coop/blog/081023.html> You'll need big.txt from he...
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Biological Sex Shapes Tumour Evolution Across Cancer Types - gotocake https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00562-7 ====== joeblow9999 but what if i just say im the opposite sex?
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Show HN: Web app that formats submissions from Hacker News: Who's Hiring - AETackaberry https://jobsortio.herokuapp.com ====== AETackaberry The listings are sorted by the technologies you know and how well you know them. Please let me know about the technologies I'm missing. I wanted control over them so that I could ...
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Carbon Tax Simulator - strommen https://www.uscleanenergyfund.com/blog/carbon-tax-simulator/ ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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Have you hired someone in 1 day? - zippy786 Wondering how many you have hired someone in a day within 1-2 hour of interview or seen someone get hired this way ? ====== JSeymourATL It happens -- mostly with executives who have the authority and wherewithal to make a quick decision. There three basic criteria in making...
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WordPress 2.7 Released - PStamatiou http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/ ====== theantidote Been using it for the past week for a client's site. All of the themes and plugins I've thrown at it have worked perfectly. Nice job! ------ KrisJordan The new UI looks really slick.
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25 Free Checklists Collection for Startuppers - bibblico http://startupmate.flammate.com/25-printable-checklists-for-your-business/?ref=producthunt ====== xtiansimon Can only access with Facebook Messenger?
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The Prince of Counterterrorism: Washington's Favorite Saudi - piercestanley http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2015/the-prince-of-counterterrorism ====== bobosha excellent analysis
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Server side rendering with prefetch - bloomca http://blog.bloomca.me/2017/06/11/server-side-rendering-with-prefetch.html ====== bloomca Personally, I am a little bit sad that libraries authors don't pay enough attention to the approach of "lightweight" rendering, where we will effectively create a graph of components ...
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Palm restore pre iTunes sync. Your move Apple - nexneo http://www.precentral.net/webos-121-re-hacks-itunes-support-brings-photo-album-synchronization ====== protomyth Palm's continued attempts to out-fake Apple are more for publicity then any useful feature for their customers. Never mind a standards organization is...
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Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad - pkrein http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/07/codecademy-jquery-scratchpad/ ====== hansef I love what Codeacademy is doing, but hope they'll be rolling out some meatier lesson content with that 2m round before too long. The entire venturebeat- post-worthy jQuery lessons tak...
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What is Modern Perl - davorg http://www.josetteorama.com/perl/what-is-modern-perl/http://www.josetteorama.com/perl/what-is-modern-perl/ ====== chernevik I'm torn between thinking there is value in learning some Perl and not really knowing that value might be. I've found a lot of embedded wisdom in the "old school" st...
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Will people still buy the $999 iPhone? - bkbaba https://medium.com/@Abhishek.Bagalkot/will-people-still-buy-the-999-iphone-2fe4334c72a7 ====== Jeremy1026 Short answer: Yes. Medium answer: Yes, by the millions. Long answer: Of course they will. There is a subset of people who will buy the most expensive thing availab...
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Ask HN: Does this software exist? - ScottWhigham As a musician on the side, I've come across a "problem" that I'm hoping someone can help me solve. Here's the "problem":<p>* I have a group of songs that I play (let's say 50) that is a fairly static list<p>* I want to be able to plan out set lists based on those song...
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Microsoft could move jobs abroad because of US immigration policies - kerng https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-might-be-forced-to-move-some-jobs-abroad-brad-smith-says.html ====== leakybit Meanwhile, Microsoft hasn't replied to my job application in weeks. ------ NTDF9 I've seen many companies hedging their be...
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Can You Copyright Work Made by Artificial Intelligence? - zdw https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-interesting-the-ai-copyright ====== rahuldottech Upon reading the title, the first thing that comes to my mind is: "why not?". If we treat AI just like any another artist's tool, I don't see why it sh...
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A new way to write code or edit text - guiyuanWoo https://www.conyedit.com ====== btschaegg This looks really interesting! Sort of an adaption of ACME's core ideas to a system that doesn't have the necessary cli tools to do the interesting stuff when it comes to automated text processing. Come to think of it: Wouldn...
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Notty – a new kind of terminal written in Rust - joshsharp https://github.com/withoutboats/notty ====== antiquark Nice idea! Might I suggest using HTML for the escape codes? The terminal would be basically unlimited if there was a built-in HTML renderer. Maybe you would need some high level "EnterHtml" and "ExitHtml" ...
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Help.imgur.com HTTPS invalid certificate - hellbanner I wanted to send a UI improvement to the devs. So I clicked the hamburger menu, then &quot;need help&quot;. This page isn&#x27;t loading for me: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.imgur.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us<p>Was this untested bad configuration or is imgur compromised? ===...
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Ask HN: Which recruiters do you like? - ryanmickle Who are the most genuinely helpful recruiters (individuals), who you&#x27;ve interacted with and why? Hoping this might be a good supplement to Who&#x27;s Hiring. ====== JDiculous Any recruiter is only as good as his/her listings. Comparing recruiters is like comparin...
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Facebook Blocking All Imgur.com Links - d0ne http://imgur.com/nLBsJ ====== d0ne I've confirmed this through multiple Facebook accounts as well.
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Gramps: Open-Source Genealogical Research Software - wslh https://gramps-project.org/ ====== JohnTHaller It's a solid app. We've been using it and packaging it for portable use for 4 years now. ~~~ zenocon Where do you source the data if you're interested in getting started in your own family history and your perso...
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The Eccentric and Ingenious Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer - jorgenveisdal https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-ingenious-eccentric-father-of-the-atomic-bomb-ba012f620454 ====== zunzun Oppenheimer invented the neutron ray gun.
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Show HN: Make a rectangle – a puzzle game - kelukelugames https://github.com/kelukelugames/makeabox ====== Marcus316 This was always one of my favourite puzzle games growing up. I had a plastic copy of it that I would spend hours rearranging. For those who aren't familiar with this puzzle, the goal is to take the 12 ...
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What you read guys to find a niche business :) - ivan ====== jward Most of my ideas come out of things in my life, or from friends and family, that I want to make easier or in some cases possible. I don't really using reading as a resource for this. ------ rokhayakebe Financial Times, NY Times and local news papers ...
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UK issues first-ever GDPR notice in connection to Facebook data scandal - tareqak https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-issues-first-ever-gdpr-notice-in-connection-to-facebook-data-scandal/ ====== tareqak PDF of the notice: [https://ico.org.uk/media/2259362/r-letter-ico-to- aiq-060718....](https://ico.org.uk/media/2259362/...
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Ginzametrics (YC S10) gets Faster Processing, Notifications and Easier Setup - rgrieselhuber http://ginzametrics.com/ginzametrics-gets-faster-processing-notifications-and-easier-setup.html ====== timcederman Awesome - these are great improvements. I also came to post my experience with using Ginzametrics. I really ...
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Female tech writer attacked in San Francisco bar for wearing Google Glass - DiabloD3 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/02/25/woman-wearing-google-says-she-was-attacked-in-san-francisco-bar/ ====== spinlock So, she got mugged and the robbers dropped the glass because its worthless?
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Fukushima: Is it really the new Chernobyl? - llambda http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=is-fukushima-really-as-bad-as-chern-2011-04-12 ====== swixmix I want to emphasize that this is not news because reality hasn't changed. The way reality is measured has changed. The IAEA reported Japan changed fro...
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What state should I incorporate in? - peter123 http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2009/03/03/what-state-should-i-incorporate-in/ ====== jws Vermont has an interesting "virtual" company provision now which could attract you if you intend to have a geographically dispersed board and do not wish to come together for me...
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Talker's Block - Seth Godin - rrohan189 http://www.alearningaday.com/2011/09/talkers-block-seth-godin.html ====== mullr Maybe this is true for Seth Godin. But I often find myself without a suitable conversation topic when the situation demands it, as do many others. Once you're talking then things are fine, but that...
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Microsoft and IBM Partner with Red Hat: Why You Should Care - Raj7k https://www.lightreading.com/enterprise-cloud/infrastructure-and-platform/microsoft-and-ibm-partner-with-red-hat-why-you-should-care/d/d-id/742996 ====== Raj7k It was there a long time back. Sensible people tune out when vendors announce partnerships,...
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Elon Musk Says AI Is the ‘Greatest Risk We Face as a Civilization’ - wei_jok http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/07/15/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-2/ ====== Animats _Part of Musk’s worry stems from social destabilization and job loss. “When I say everything, the robots will do everything, bar nothing,” he said._...
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Show HN: mobilethread.com -- anonymous mobile messaging (web app) - mtdev http://moth.ws ====== mtdev Going to be on <http://moth.ws/dev/> for a while
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Promising Antiviral Is Being Tested for the Coronavirus but Results Not yet Out - ajaviaad https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-promising-antiviral-is-being-tested-for-the-coronavirus-but-results-are-not-yet-out/ ====== allovernow We _really_ should be focusing on chloroquine, but it looks like we're not becau...
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Apple's First TV Show Looks Like a Cry for Help - saycheese http://gizmodo.com/apples-first-tv-show-looks-like-a-cry-for-help-1792340598 ====== saycheese From Apple's official YouTube channel, here's the teaser for the show: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RInsFIWl-Q&app=desktop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RI...
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Micropayments - It Is Time - warkaiser http://www.alexwilhelm.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/02/mircopayments-is-it-time.html People need to get over free. ====== mblakele I like free content very much. Still... maybe we already have micropayments, but they aren't evenly distributed yet. The current generation of gaming cons...
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2 Factor Auth Simply Isn't Safe Anymore - rbrakus https://hackernoon.com/is-your-2-factor-auth-based-on-a-pinky-swear-and-late-90s-it-security-859f50f25c8b ====== kennydude Misleading title: SMS based 2-factor auth isn't safe. Many places have said for years not to use SMS based 2-factor auth. No news there.
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Selling their home to keep their small businesses alive - jmorin007 http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/05/economic.survivor3/index.html?eref=rss_topstories ====== RiderOfGiraffes Already posted: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468379>
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GNU Parallel - build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel - jcsalterego http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/parallel ====== d0m I'll express here what I feel while reading any man pages.. _Examples should be at the top!_ (10 years of frustration in that one line message :p) ~~~ jcsalterego I've...
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How to survive a Tech Conference - janogonzalez http://zachholman.com/posts/how-to-survive-tech-conferences/ ====== chx Good points but instead of getting a mifi get a Pepwave Surf On-The-Go -- it's the only 5Ghz capable travel router I am aware of. The 2.4GHz band will be crowded and the 5Ghz band has way, way more...
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Free book on Bayesian machine learning by David Barber - markerdmann http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/090310.pdf ====== parrisj Just a couple of notes 1) The linked version is out of date here the most current version as of Nov 2011 <http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/211111.pdf> 2) @r...
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CashRegister in PyQt5 with barcode logon and 32 programmable buttons - DirkJanJansen https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Sales ====== Phillipharryt Programmer who also works in retail, uh no, this layout highlights all the wrong things. The list of items is half the screen, my current system has it at about 1/4 and butto...
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Ask HN: Can I move over to JSF from PHP? - nshankar I am old timer to technology. My first language was Fortran (I am an engineer) and then C. I did a few websites in PHP. Listening to a lot of boo against PHP recently, I am thinking of moving over.<p>As I learnt C pretty early, Java comes close in terms of syntax. ...
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The Baumans, Sellers of Rare Books - pseudolus https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/style/bauman-books.html ====== HarryHirsch Limited editions, first editions, what perversions are those? The point of a book is that you can run off as many copies as you would like until the type wears off. And the trouble with first ed...
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NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program - bonyt https://bgr.com/2019/04/24/nsa-phone-surveillance-spying-program/ ====== ddelt Personally, the skeptic in me believes if the NSA is losing interest in a major data collection program like this, then they are deflecting the narrative from focusing on an even mo...
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Outsmarting Go Dependencies in Testing Code - orangechairs https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/outsmarting-go-dependencies-testing-code/# ====== domsj I don't get it: why would they need/want to set up a server to test the sql module in the first place? The behaviour of the sql module doesn't depend on server, so logic...
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How Do You Compete with Starbucks in the Coffee Industry? - mycodebreaks http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/04/03/how_do_you_compete_with_starbucks_in_the_coffee_industry.html ====== qdog Getting a latte at a small coffe place that actually puts effort into it is like night and day vs. the big chains. There are q...
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How Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan Created 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (2013) - Thevet http://nofilmschool.com/2013/08/how-lucas-spielberg-kasdan-created-raiders-of-the-lost-ark ====== kingmanaz >How Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan Created 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'... ...without CGI, thankfully. It's been more than a decade ...
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Smart Watchers - micrypt http://kyrobeshay.com/post/60387655373/smart-watchers ====== CoreLogic DOA, no one will buy them. The only real value would have been entry level $99 smart phone with stripped down features, or medical device to track your heart beat. It is just redundant otherwise. I need something on my w...
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Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline - joshfraser https://www.thenation.com/article/amy-goodman-is-facing-prison-for-reporting-on-the-dakota-access-pipeline-that-should-scare-us-all/ ====== abalone 25 years ago Amy Goodman very narrowly avoided execution while covering the Indonesia...
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The Employable Bootcamp Candidate - markwaldron https://medium.com/@whiteglovecoder/codename-the-employable-bootcamp-candidate-1769f4c92426#.d5yw96n1t ====== lloydde > Instead I recommend utilizing the whitespace for your projects and listing > your technical skills within a project’s context. Context is king! I can'...
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I Put In 5 Miles at the Office: Walking Workstations - robg http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/health/nutrition/18fitness.html?ref=fashion ====== michael_dorfman Has anyone here actually tried this? It sounds interesting, but I'd sure like to suss it out further before making the investment...
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Apple iPad May Ship With Webcam - fjabre http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/apple-ipad-may-ship-with-webcam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2)) ====== cmelbye I'm buying if it does. I'm on the bubble right now due to lack of camera and multitaski...
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What's wrong with JavaScript - rdallasgray http://rdallasgray.github.io/blog/2013/06/09/whats-wrong-with-javascript/ ====== coldtea I'd rather have a fixed JS (no BS coercion, actual hashes, method_missing, better binding rules, local vars by default, "use scrict" checks for everything, int64 arithmetic, and a non man...
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Ask HN: Guide for securing home network with smart devices? - jxf My parents have recently moved into an apartment in NYC with a number of smart devices that came with the apartment: thermostats, light bulbs, et cetera.<p>Given the tenuous security of IoT devices, are there guides or resources that you&#x27;d recommen...
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Non-Newtonian fluid on a speaker [video] - RiderOfGiraffes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU ====== RiderOfGiraffes Inspired by this thread allegedly about running on water, I went an looked again at the "running on a non-Newtonian fluid" videos: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw> That led me to...
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Why being a vegan is kind of ridiculous. - curtisspope http://www.quora.com/Do-vegans-acknowledge-that-plants-are-animal-life?__snids__=12856863 ====== mooism2 My image of Quora being a repository of high quality questions is ruined. ~~~ curtisspope lol
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I have no idea what I'm doing - InternetGiant http://codon.com/i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing ====== gitaarik Summary: If you look closely enough, nobody really knows exactly what they're doing. When you realize this, you're no longer blinded by the thought that you or other people know everything about something. Th...
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K8s-usenet is a collection of Helm charts related to Usenet services - aborrero https://github.com/aldoborrero/k8s-usenet ====== mbushey Helm is horrible, it makes simple elegant yaml files complex and makes the changes you actually need harder. Kustomize is the correct way to do things.
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Brandery Prepares for Demo Day 2012 - ntippmann http://nibletz.com/2012/09/brandery-prepares-for-demo-day-2012/ ====== ntippmann I know Impulcity is looking forward to it! Can't wait. ------ everywhereelse Great piece on the Brandery
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Walmart SSL certificates - huhtenberg http://www.codefromthe70s.org/certcheck.asp?t=www.walmart.com ====== huhtenberg To elaborate: they are using well-known private keys in their certificates, so all SSL connections towards their servers cannot be guaranteed to be private or authentic. They are wide open to active ...
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