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Categorization of drawings of dog and cat faces – A university project - jeena https://github.com/jeena/catdog/blob/master/report.md ====== alexhawdon Nice little project. A few suggestions to improve the writeup: 1\. Consider going into more depth on the workings of the image processing techniques. The ones you h...
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Show HN: Homescreenhomie.com - lopsae https://www.homescreenhomie.com/ ====== lopsae Turn yourself into an app on your friend's phone. Upload an image and allow anyone to add it to their mobile homescreen. Similar to how people have photos of their friends or family in their wallets.
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Samsung Begins Mass Production of 512GB EUFS 3.1 - oedmarap https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-mass-production-of-the-fastest-storage-for-flagship-smartphones ====== mwcampbell Am I the only one who thinks that microSD cards, and by extension EUFS cards, are too small? It's very easy to lose a microSD card...
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Ask HN: I need quick help - musiic703 Looking to get a domain is the hyphen bad thing in a website? ====== michaelpinto From a branding point of view the bad thing is that when you say the name of the domain over the phone you always have to say bla-hyphen-bla.com which is a pain. ~~~ musiic703 What if its one of t...
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Are you a programmer with chronic headaches? If so please read - ColinWright http://jacquesmattheij.com/Programmers+with+chronic+headaches+please+read ====== mechanical_fish _Until I was 30 the word 'headache' didn't even exist for me. I never really understood what other people were going on about._ There are two ph...
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Verizon customers forced onto Frontier - nhangen http://www.meetfrontier.com/ ====== zzalpha Forced? Yeah, that title isn't editorialized. Verizon divested themselves of some of their wireline footprint, selling it off to Frontier. This is no different than, say, a cell company merger or similar. Don't like it? Sw...
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Strange Beings – Episode #1 with Keith Rabois - danielzarick http://www.strangebeings.co/episodes/4053-1-keith-rabois ====== zoba Hey Daniel: Looks pretty cool, and like something I'd want to listen to. Only thing is: I have no idea what the content will be like. It'd be good to have a summary of discussion before I...
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"rent an expert" with AirPair - logicalcat Running a single-person startup is challenging. Learning new technologies by the usual methods (going to meetups, working through tutorials, etc.) are great for general, high-level knowledge, but not particularly good when you need advice about specifics. Finding an expert ...
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Conquering the Command Line - Free eBook - metacasts http://conqueringthecommandline.com/book ====== markbates Learn to master and conquer the most valuable and useful command line tools for Unix and Linux based systems. In this book you will find not only the most useful command line tools you need to know, but als...
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LibreOffice progress to 4.2.0 - bkor http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2014-01-30-under-the-hood.html ====== cpncrunch Looks like a lot of effort has been put into this release, especially under the hood. I switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice recently due to much improved docx import in LibreOffice, and I see t...
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AIDungeon, a deep learning generated text adventure (browser playable) - nickwalton00 http://aidungeon.io ====== beanland I just jumped down a pit full of men's panties while wearing a maid's outfit. Not sure where exactly this is going, but nice work! ~~~ nickwalton00 Thanks haha! It's sometimes incoherent, but it's...
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A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used - ondras http://jsfiddle.net/ondras/hYfN3/ ====== lifeisstillgood I am impressed. Its a neat hack, it actually is a real spreadsheet in 30 lines of code, with references fully working (ie =A3+B4 gives expected output. As does =alert("foo") but then no...
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80% of US accepts that there’s a human role in climate change - pseudolus https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/most-americans-support-efforts-on-climate-change-want-more-renewables/ ====== mean_gene_1976 How does one extrapolate 80?
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The Death of George Floyd, in Context - grumple https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-death-of-george-floyd-in-context ====== grumple I thought the lack of discussion of one of the more pressing matters of our time continues to be an expression of privilege for HN. Perhaps there are ways that tech / vc / o...
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The Oatmeal was temporarily shutdown by ICANN - alexkehr http://www.name.com/blog/how-tos/2014/07/the-oatmeal-was-temporarily-shutdown-by-icann-heres-how-to-avoid-having-this-happen/ ====== sp332 That link is giving a 403 error.
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The Super-Rich Are Stockpiling Wealth in Black-Box Charities - petethomas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/the-super-rich-are-stockpiling-wealth-in-black-box-charities ====== andrewla This article makes my head hurt, as do so many discussions of charitable giving. The only reason to give to charity i...
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High-Tech Cheating Abounds, and Professors Bear Some Blame - ilamont http://chronicle.com/article/High-Tech-Cheating-on-Homework/64857/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en ====== makecheck Seems like it's time to randomize questions. And technology could be used for this, too. It wouldn't be too hard to come up with...
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Show HN: A local multilistener realtime radio station based on YouTube - FedericoElles I'm working on this since months during some spare work time at my company and before knowing about turntable.fm. Maybe some office worker here have the same niche problem as we did and find this useful. Feedback highly appreciat...
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Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of Human History (2017) - curtis https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/mastodon-bone-findings-could-upend-our-understanding-human-history-n751406 ====== zipwitch The answer is obvious: time-travelers on a 'paleo hunting experience' trip. "We'll just target 1...
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Recession, tech kill middle-class jobs - dgunn http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-recession-tech-kill-middle-class-jobs-051306434--finance.html ====== up_and_up So is it Man over machine or machine over Man? Seem like the real issue lies in the trend toward optimization in every part of the economy, from the small busin...
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The Unreasonable Fundamental Incertitudes Behind Bitcoin Mining - markmassie http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7935 ====== apw Here is the reference the authors cite: [4] [4] Bitter to Better — How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency [http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoin.pdf](http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoi...
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Show HN: I created an Excel plugin for using SQL inside Excel - anakic http://thingiequery.com/ ====== anakic Hi all! So as a side project I developed a plugin that lets you do SQL inside Excel. It's called ThingieQuery (www.thingiequery.com). When you install ThingieQuery, you get a SQL IDE window inside Excel. I...
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Chalkdust – A magazine for the mathematically curious - ColinWright http://chalkdustmagazine.com/ ====== paulplug Love Chalkdusk! My 3 favorite math, physics and cs websites that I discovered this year are: \- [https://www.quantamagazine.org](https://www.quantamagazine.org) \- [http://chalkdustmagazine.com](http://c...
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Cross Platform Mobile App Development Online Course - abhshksingh http://hub.coursebirdie.com/p/cross-platform-mobile-app-development/?product_id=196534&coupon_code=PRODUCTHUNT&ref=producthunt ====== sashaedi Good course!
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A marketplace of DRM-free ebooks - ableal http://fifobooks.com ====== ableal As joubert had hinted (in <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1298038>), the Fifobooks.com catalog is now browsable on the web.
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Ask HN: How does one buy stocks outside the US? - CSDude I am in the tech market in a non-US country with already stock options, but our system allows only cashing out our vested stocks via wire transfer.<p>If I wanted to buy stocks, how should I do it? Is it brokers job? How would a foreign person trust a broker via...
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Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering - Impossible https://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-so-few-games-on-google-stadia-2020-2 ====== polytely It's really interesting if you compare it to Epic's entry into the game selling business. What they did was: 1\. Appeal to developers by making exclusivity deals...
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The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exaggerated - Tomte http://lj.libraryjournal.com/blogs/annoyedlibrarian/2016/08/18/the-death-and-life-of-reading-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/ ====== Tomte Money quote: "We never had a reading culture. We had an entertainment culture where reading was the easiest form...
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Technical interview question: “What do you think of this tutorial?" - raganwald http://www.functionx.com/cpp/examples/returnpointer.htm ====== zaptheimpaler I suppose you want the candidate to point out that returning pointers to local variables of a function is a bad idea? (and tell you to either declare the variab...
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Wirecard’s real business relied on small number of customers - chewz https://www.ft.com/content/7c466351-02fe-4d66-85a1-53d012de7445 ====== samizdis Copy of article (minus a graphic) available at: [https://geekly.co.uk/wirecards-real-business-relied-on- small...](https://geekly.co.uk/wirecards-real-business-relied-on...
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Mini-laptops sell faster during economic crisis - snydeq http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/15/Minilaptops_sell_faster_during_economic_crisis_1.html ====== sjs382 I think it has more to do with price and availability. Before this generation of 'netbooks', it cost a small fortune to get a tiny notebook. Now with ...
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Show HN: Ilograph – Interactive System Diagrams - Veuxdo https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Ilograph/Request/interactive-system-diagrams ====== bastijn Previous threads. @OP consider adding what changed since last Show HN'S. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21999734](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2199...
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Font Custom - Generate Custom Icon Web Fonts From The Command Line - Hirvesh http://fontcustom.com/ ====== Hirvesh Via Functionn - Open Source Resources For Web Developers & Designers: [http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/11/font-custom- generate-c...](http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/11/font-custom-generate- custom-...
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Traction Stack - activatedgeek http://tractionstack.com/ ====== activatedgeek The website that goes along with the book [https://www.amazon.com/Traction- Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Cu...](https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup- Achieve-Explosive- Customer/dp/1591848369/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1488258006&sr=8-2&keywords...
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Fourier transform for dummies - wfn https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1002/fourier-transform-for-dummies ====== thomasahle This is what made it `click' for me: [http://betterexplained.com/articles/an- interactive-guide-to-...](http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive- guide-to-the-fourier-transform/) ...
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How we test the TeamCity UI - el_duderino https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2020/06/teamcity-ui-how-do-we-test-it/ ====== ed_balls Great post about testing, it's pretty much all you need to develop a robust app. BUT TeamCity UX is the worst UI from all CI systems that I have used. From first version of Jenkis to ma...
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LinkedIn is down - cgopalan http://linkedin.com/ ====== day_ It's working here.
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Calculate your total time spent watching TV shows - Siva1456 http://sivakodali.com/tv/ ====== Siva1456 a
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Show HN: Seobots.io – simple bots for task automation - grammakov Hello HackerNews!<p>I would like to invite you to test drive a project I&#x27;ve been working on for qute a while: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seobots.io This is the long awaited (by myself) release of a concept that I have first presented a few years back.<p>The...
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22nd Dec aka the EA Massacre: Why we are skipping it - Gable http://www.bitongo.com/index.php/2011/12/12/22nd-dec-aka-the-ea-massacre-why-we-are-skipping-it/ ====== popmatrix What's the difference if it's EA, Ubisoft, Apple etc... Nothing is preventing a holiday price drop for bitongo which could be outweighed by the ...
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Coders Automating Their Own Job - benryon https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795/?single_page=true ====== peteforde You know how sometimes you love an article so much that you are annoyed you didn't write it? This does a better job than I could have of tieing together a doze...
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Even experts get it wrong - vasco http://notch.tumblr.com/post/27897241780/even-experts-get-it-wrong ====== irahul The dude attacking Mojang isn't looking good. > Its amazing to see so many people loyal to this game maker. Good on him. Eh, didn't take the time to consider some of us are against the patent bullying...
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A Disturbing Number of People Think Coronavirus Is Related to Corona Beer - elorant https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdvvd/a-disturbing-number-of-people-think-coronavirus-is-related-to-corona-beer ====== maxbaines I think this is more likely to be people like me googling that to see all the Corona Beer memes ~~~ v...
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The Hero Jr. personal robot from HeathKit: a 1984 product way ahead of its time - acidburnNSA https://partofthething.com/thoughts/the-hero-jr-personal-robot-from-heathkit-a-1984-product-way-ahead-of-its-time/ ====== bitwize When I saw one of these on Mr. Wizard back in the day, I thought the future had arrived. -----...
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Ask HN: members of distributed teams, how do you cope with the loneliness? - ozh Of course you&#x27;re collaborating on a day to day basis using email, skype, IRC or whatever, but how do you handle the physical loneliness throughout the day? ====== JSeymourATL Purposely plan regular 1:1 breakfast or lunch meetings wit...
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Mindful in May - evolve2k http://www.mindfulinmay.org ====== khorwitz Mindfulness for your work: [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focusr/fgdcnfgmneb...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focusr/fgdcnfgmneblnnldmaffhbniomfajlah) Instead of focusing on your (i.e.) your breath, you can practice bring...
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A word about color - grishick Commenters on the tech blogs are eager to jump on the bandwagon and bash Color's $41 mil investment as a clear sign of a bubble. At first I thought so too. Granted, the app has a two star rating, is not immediately intuitive, and is otherwise only marginally useful. Yet, I disagree with...
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Show HN: Komposto – Sketchbook of self-modifying programs - fatiherikli http://komposto.org ====== azeirah This really needs an accompanying introduction. Why this? How'd you get this idea? What's easy to do using this technique that's not easy in traditional programs? It's too far out for me (and I guess for others a...
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2009 Predictions: iPhone Gaming Will Replace Nintendo and Sony - dell9000 http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/12/29/2009-predictions-iphone-gaming-will-replace-nintendo-and-sony/ ====== sachinag OK, let me point out that the Nintendo DS has a web browser, Wi-Fi connectivity, and _actually works_ as a gaming device. I thin...
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The Death of Iowa - smacktoward https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/04/the-death-of-iowa-110655 ====== gumby This looks political but I think it raises a different, more important point about the naïveté people exhibit when it comes to software and complex technology. This was exhibited by the developers of course w...
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Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML as the format for its word documents? - abs222 What&#x27;s the difference between using doc vs. HTML as a document format? Why did Microsoft not use HTML instead of inventing doc format? ====== greenyoda Because Microsoft Word came out in 1983 and HTML didn't exist until 1993. No...
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Quitting job - nitam I knew i made the right decision to leave the corporate-dilbert-like world when asked by a coworker : "why are you leaving this job, now you'll have to learn many new things". Defense rests :) ====== staunch I'm planning my escape in great detail, like a prison inmate who has been wrongly convic...
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Introducing the new Intel HTML5 Development Environment - amanvir_sangha http://software.intel.com/en-us/html5 ====== suyash I'm still not sure why they care so much about HTML5? They say you can put apps on iOS, Android , Windows etc well there is nothing new about that but where does Intel HTML5 come in the pictur...
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Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute - dieulot https://instant.page/ ====== WestCoastJustin Live demo on my website @ [https://sysadmincasts.com/](https://sysadmincasts.com/) Temporary added it in-line for testing. I was already in the sub 100ms level but this just puts it over the top! Also updated ...
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Warren Buffett: Buying Berkshire Hathaway Was $200 Billion Blunder - NonEUCitizen http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Warren-Buffett-Buying-cnbc-1784378699.html ====== kgermino Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804277>
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Ask HN: The Best Programmers' you've ever read - jfaucett In my free time, I try to read the source code of projects I think are interesting, and in the course of my years I've found some programmers I've really come to respect. I was wondering if you guys would be willing to list out the programmer(s), and their pr...
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High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network - gvb http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-are-killing-the-european-railway-network.html ====== furyg3 For European HNers (or travelers) I plea for you to use the night trains, keep them alive. One example: Between Amsterdam & Bern - Skybu...
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Ask HN: How hard is it to hire international remote workers? - alphagrep12345 If you&#x27;re in USA&#x2F;UK&#x2F;Australia and are trying to hire remote workers from another country, how hard is the legal process? Is this something a small startup could think of doing? Or do they just not do it because of the legal ha...
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The Hidden Cost of C++ - groby_b http://www.rachelslabnotes.com/2009/10/the-hidden-cost-of-c/ ====== dkarl The argument boils down to the fact that C++ can express more in a single line of code than C can. _a = func(b,c);_ .... _Is it a function call, a member function call, or is it an anonymous constructor? A...
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Gitlab Security Mails - dewey https://gist.github.com/dewey/050e0b7a818d0f76b959a058da4c5ee9 ====== detaro Probably not fake: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11587416](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11587416)
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Spotify desktop app loaded viruses onto users PCs via advertising - ljf http://bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12891182 ====== JCB_K I use Spotify on OSX, and interestingly enough some ads get blocked by clicktoflash, which I use in Safari.
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Google Chrome Market Share - nreece http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4499455073_a729acd621_o.png ====== melling What's great is that Google is getting everyone upgraded to each new browser. If only Microsoft could do that with IE, and Mozilla with Firefox. Too bad Google isn't as effective with Android versions.
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Easy guide to enabling two-factor authentication on your Google account - primesuspect http://tech.icrontic.com/news/how-to-enable-two-factor-authentication-on-your-google-account/ ====== sylviebarak really helpful, thanks for this Icrontic.
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Ask HN: Consulting firm in an offshore country? - enclin I&#x27;m a software consultant with clients all over the world, living in not the most stable country.<p>I&#x27;d like to open a company in a more stable country (currently I&#x27;m operating as a sole proprietor in my home-country), and Belize&#x2F;BVG&#x2F;Pan...
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Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine (9 Min Video) - ogdoad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kua5B5K3I ====== ogdoad Setups like this completely invalidate any individual effort. ~~~ mkempe Why completely? is there room for marginal profits at the individual level?
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In Silicon Valley, designers emerge as rock stars - tinio http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/13/us-designers-startup-idUSBRE83C0QG20120413 ====== adrianhoward From my perspective it isn't so much that designers are now "rock stars" (whatever that may be), but that more and more organisations are finally figuring...
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Google’s quantum computer just simulated a molecule for the first time - prateekj http://www.sciencealert.com/google-s-quantum-computer-is-helping-us-understand-quantum-physics?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceDump ====== CarolineW Perhaps, but this is not the first submission to HN o...
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Lessons on Being a Success on Wall St., and Being a Casualty - mitmads http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/lessons-on-being-a-success-on-wall-st-and-being-a-casualty ====== mitmads "women need sponsors more than mentors. Mentors will offer advice and guidance; sponsors will actually pull women’s careers along." !...
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Wireless Carriers Leave Millions of Android Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - iProject http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/carriers-fail-to-secure-phones/ ====== nextparadigms This wouldn't be that big of a problem if the carriers and manufacturers left control over updates to Google. ~~~ juan_juarez But they have ...
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Why large IT development projects are problematic - motters http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/isoft-government-projects.html#problematic ====== oiuhyjtgfhjkl They aren't - the authors are just using the wrong performance metrics. The point of a large IT project is career advancement for all inv...
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Symantec and Trend Micro rumored to be 2 of the 3 hacked US AV companies - guardiangod https://gizmodo.com/antivirus-makers-confirm-and-deny-getting-breached-afte-1834725136 ====== voidmain0001 As Boston sang: "More than rumor!" [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fxmsp-chat- lo...](https://www.bleepingcom...
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ActiveState Moves Stackato Cloud Platform to Beta - jcasman http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/ActiveState-Moves-Stackato-Cloud-Platform-to-Beta-258507/ ====== Pythondj Getting ready to create my own Private PaaS with the Stackato Beta this morning, looking forward to testing out the postgres support ------...
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McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora Project - antileet http://lwn.net/Articles/408052/ ====== Klonoar This totally freaked me out to see, both as a front-end specialist and someone with the last name McGrath. That said, I actually think it's a pretty slick idea. I've seen a lot of different one-off efforts over in U...
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Rechner: A gesture based calculator - nchlswu http://www.rechner-app.com/ ====== aggarwalachal Looks interesting. Seems to me that the functions are pretty minimal right now. Would be nice to see the complex functions getting mapped on the gestures. Otherwise, it is a great step towards minimalism. Also, looks lik...
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Ask HN: What are the best ways to get first 100 users for a powerful Slack Bot? - NidsBuilds Just revamped and launched Scribe, an In-Slack Sales Bot designed to help you focus and scale your meaningful sales conversations. Looking for ideas on how I can get a good handful of users to try it out?<p>Goes without saying...
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Are patent pools the solution to smartphone lawsuits? - vectorbunny http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/are-patent-pools-the-solution-to-smartphone-lawsuits/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29 ====== vectorbunny A related and interesti...
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A Computer Science Degree DoesnaEURXt Hurt (Much) - bootload http://www.leahculver.com/2007/05/30/a-computer-science-degree-doesnt-hurt-much/ ====== jamesbritt More or less content-free blog post. ~~~ bootload _"... More or less content-free blog post ..."_ James, how? I can see a couple of good messages here. The ...
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Nice description of what a maintainers workflow looks like with git - bosky101 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/maintain-git.txt ====== bosky101 here are also a nice explanations of "pull vs fetch,merge" <http://longair.net/blog/2009/04/16/git-fetch-and-merge/> [http://blog.mikepearce.net/2010...
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Visual Studio App Center is generally available - kartickv https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/visual-studio-live-share-takes-the-pain-out-of-collaborative-coding/ ====== kartickv Seems like an end-to-end solution: \- Pair debugging \- Git integration \- beta deployment \- run your code on real iOS or Android ...
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Greece's finance minister used to be Valve's games economist - ethana http://boingboing.net/2015/01/28/greeces-new-finance-minister.html ====== ratfacemcgee Varoufakis has been featured heaps on NPR's Planet Money show. In one episode [1] he was quoted on Australian Radio Show "Late Nite Live" to say: > "When you h...
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Nuclear Experts Explain Worst-Case Scenario at Fukushima Power Plant - gommm http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fukushima-core ====== nazgulnarsil "we're in a land where probability says we shouldn't be." You, sir, need better advisors. ~~~ Ratfish Go easy... "it was the earthquake and tsunami." they d...
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HowTo for exotic birds in the Valley? - wuschel Hi,<p>I am searching for maximum exposure to people of technology&#x2F;startup background.<p>The thing is: As a soon to be PhD in Chemistry with experience in biotechnology I am a rather exotic bird in the business. I am a self taught python programmer, and had plenty ...
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Ask HN: Can't get .com or .net, what's the next best extension? - chowlet Working on a startup and can't get the .com or .net of the company name. Which extension is best: .me, .ly, .co, or something else? ====== pg Choose another name, not another extension. ~~~ chowlet I hear you. Usually I'm not wedded to things...
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Alvin M. Marks, Inventor With 122 Patents, Dies at 97 - terpua http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/business/31marks.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1212226838-T15cuuKBRHjOfl0mP7FkRQ ====== terpua Alvin Marks >= Hank Rearden
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Show HN: Slouch Stoppah - lnenad https://slouchstoppah.com ====== Noumenon72 Good habit formation can't hurt, but don't neglect the fundamentals. The thing that's pulling your shoulders forward is not some mental weakness on your part, it's an imbalance in muscle tightness and weakness, like a tent pole with regular g...
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Power Blogging Hour (and Why You Should Have One Too) - robert_mygengo http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/power-blogging-hour-and-why-you-should-have-one-too/ ====== pamelafox It's a good idea to make sure that you write a certain amount each week (both for personal brand and startup brand). I personally find that there ...
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Show HN: HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements. - sergiotapia http://coderwall.com/p/-vqwfg ====== pooriaazimi (off-topic) What is wrong with Coderwall? They're worse than Google+ and the stupid "Join Google+" bar... If someone wants to join, they will. No need to rub it in their face. At least have ...
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How to Achieve Painless Registration - req2 http://www.asktog.com/columns/081Registration.html ====== elblanco Step 1:review HN's registration scheme Step 2:Copy it.
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OpenAI Playing Sonic - raudaschl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FHHuRTkr_Y ====== ayakura An updated OpenAI will be playing with a team of semi-pros (casters) on Aug 5th, so that'll be interesting to look at. ~~~ ayakura Link because I forgot: [https://twitter.com/wykrhm/status/1019788033959157760?s=21](https://twi...
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107x Faster Image Processing (Grayscale) in C# - ltcode https://www.programmingalgorithms.com/algorithm/grayscale ====== wmu 107x faster than what? This algorithm is well known, I've seen the equation many years ago. ~~~ lovelearning Yeah, I expected some new algorithm, given the domain name. Looks like all the impro...
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Ask HN: Who actually reads YC applications? - 10dpd A recent tweet suggested that YC video submissions are being watched by people outside of the core YC team, sometimes in public.<p>How are applications processed, and what guarantees are given to applicants that their submission will be kept confidential? ====== ro...
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Bird Audio Detection: baseline tests and the problem of generalisation - jarmitage http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2016/10/bird-audio-detection-baseline-generalisation/ ====== yareally I've been working on matching recorded bird audio from a device to known matches and it's not an easy problem (personal hobby...
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Day Night – Kill the procrastination in you - sanjevirau https://getdaynight.com ====== Operyl Shouldn't this be tagged Show HN? "Coming soon to macOS" Darn, can't even try the app since it supports neither of my primary platforms (Linux, macOS)
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Meteor and Qt - achipa http://achipa.blogspot.com/2014/12/meteor-and-qt-match-made-in-heaven.html ====== jakozaur There is a lot opinions on HNews that Meteor is too monolithic and it's bad: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8772563](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8772563) However, that kind of projects s...
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AI can’t protect us from deepfakes, argues new report - Anon84 https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/18/20872084/ai-deepfakes-solution-report-data-society-video-altered ====== michannne It definitely can't. There are many cons to this of course that have discussed ad infinitum, but I'd like to point out this opens doors for...
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Auroracoin: "a cryptocurrency for Iceland" - heydenberk http://auroracoin.org/ ====== nirnira Good. Although I have no reason to believe this particular coin will succeed, the more projects and attempts like this the better. The sooner governments around the world lose their corrupt and illegitimate stranglehold on ...
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Bypass the horrendous custom installer for Flash 10.1 on Mac OS X - abennett http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/111334/good-job-adobe-flash-team ====== orborde Does anyone have a similar trick for Windows? I can't seem to access anything but the horrible "Download Manager" extension/ActiveX using IE or Firef...
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The last will and testament of Circuit City - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2009/03/07/the-last-will-and-testament-of-circuit-city/ ====== Dobbs I went and checked out this 'sale' many of the items like ethernet and TV's cost more with the 80% 'off' than to purchase said goods on newegg or other places on t...
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TXT Record XSS - ryanskidmore http://who.is/dns/jamiehankins.co.uk ====== mrb I am half serious, but how about making HTML served in TXT records a standard trick for serving small web pages very quickly? There are way fewer network round trips: 1. DNS query for TXT record for example.com 2. DNS ...
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Ask HN: Web based bookkeeping? - tonydewan I'm looking for bookkeeping software for my new company. We're geographically distributed, so desktop software isn't really an option. We also generally hate Quickbooks. Are there other options? We currently use and love Harvest for time tracking/invoicing/estimating, but i...
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