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Kent Sorenson: The tea party hero who lost everything - orf https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/21/kent-sorenson-was-a-tea-party-hero-then-he-lost-everything-220522 ====== orf Political posts are quite rightly frowned upon here, but I think this story is excellent. It focuses more on the incarceration asp...
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Google will remove misleading election-related autocompletes - hhs https://www.engadget.com/google-block-autocomplete-fake-news-elections-194145543.html ====== verdverm They already removed "joe biden gaffe" for me. I'm more suspect that they are manipulating autocomplete for their political preferences... on an indiv...
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Facebook Falls from Grace, and Investors’ Stock Holdings Tumble Too - Sonnol53 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/facebook-stock.html ====== landcoctos Facebook and many many other tech companies are built on gathering as much data they can on their users. Should people revolt (hint: they probably won't) tec...
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Immersed oil cooling for data-centres? - AnotherHustler I&#x27;ve seen some eccentric examples of oil cooling for desktop PCs, however this startup is doing the same thing for datacenters - http:&#x2F;&#x2F;asperitas.com&#x2F;<p>Does anyone have any experience in this space?<p>Aside from cost reduction, the elephant i...
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Modern monetary theory: the rise of economists who say government de (cont) - whack https://theconversation.com/modern-monetary-theory-the-rise-of-economists-who-say-huge-government-debt-is-not-a-problem-141495 ====== rossdavidh I know this sounds boring and old-fashioned, but whether government debt is a good or a ba...
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Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich - happy-go-lucky http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180709-unlike-most-millennials-norways-are-rich ====== franciscop As a Spaniard who has discussed this in lenght with many other Europeans[1], it really seems like the US is the main country with the University debt issue. I...
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Twelve virtues of rationality - Hexstream http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues ====== dgordon "The best physicist in ancient Greece could not calculate the path of a falling apple. There is no guarantee that adequacy is possible given your hardest effort; therefore spare no thought for whether others are doing wors...
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Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks - bensummers http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/01/25/observations-from-two-weeks-of-ssh-brute-force-attacks/ ====== rlvesco7 I've been running a similar experiment. And noticed similar things as the author. However, I decided to run an additional experiment...
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Here's What Really Happened at That Company That Set a $70,000 Minimum Wage - Thorondor http://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pay-mean-more-growth.html ====== kspaans > he has sold all his stocks, emptied his retirement accounts, and mortgaged > his two properties -- including a $1.2 million home wi...
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Toyota Mirai: World’s first mass-produced hydrogen-powered car - TimJRobinson http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/technology/toyota-mirai-worlds-first-massproduced-hydrogenpowered-car-has-a-range-of-300-miles-and-its-on-its-way-to-the-uk-31507944.html ====== bytefactory Can anybody with insight into more details than ...
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Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better - rbanffy https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/ubuntu-18-04-the-return-of-a-familiar-interface-marks-the-best-ubuntu-in-years/ ====== shabbyrobe > Ubuntu has done a bit of tweaking so that you can actually put launchers, > f...
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Developers’ side projects - grabeh https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-projects/ ====== alexmingoia > Not related to your employer’s line of work. Um, wait. What’s the definition > of related? [...] I don’t know. It’s a big enough ambiguity that you could > drive a truck through it. No, it's not...
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A book is not a file. - IpxqwidxG https://medium.com/writing-a-book/c3a39daa6ba9 ====== transfire Would you be happier if we called files "objects" instead? It's just a name given to a on-disk data structure. Call it what you will. In the end it is just a stream of bits. However I agree with you at a higher level. ...
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UK government issues notice to BBC to limit publication of surveillance tactics - nsns http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-media-censor-surveillance-security ====== colin_jack I found this fascinating, if the BBC really are complying then they go even further down my list of viable news sources...
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SPI CA History (Debian) (2002) - yuhong https://groups.google.com/d/msg/linux.debian.devel/dMwxk9_X79s/jKhfcZE798oJ ====== yuhong Thinking about it, we are lucky that Debian used Gandi instead of StartCom too.
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Brexit polling: What went wrong? - sndean http://andrewgelman.com/2016/06/24/brexit-polling-what-went-wrong/ ====== pmoriarty Does the UK use easily hackable electronic voting machines? ~~~ mtmail No. Pen and paper and people doing the counting. [https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/743506822699585536/photo/1](https://tw...
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Can TikTok be banned from US based Android devices? - bluegopher https://raccoon.onyxbits.de/blog/trump-ban-tiktok-wechat-usa/ ====== zmmmmm Half of this rationale seems to assume that TikTok can't modify the app to work independently of Play Services. But that is completely something they could do. In fact, I'd assum...
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Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court - chaqke https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/bad-day-bad-patents-supreme-court-unanimously-strikes-down-abstract-software ====== deciplex >We will work to ensure the Federal Circuit—the court that hears all patent appeals—diligently applies the new filter on pat...
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Dropbox Chooser - goronbjorn https://blog.dropbox.com/2012/11/meet-the-dropbox-chooser-a-new-way-to-add-stuff-from-dropbox/ ====== nikcub When we did this at Omnidrive we worked with other online storage providers and web app prodivers to do it in a standard way so that instead of 'Upload from Dropbox' you could spe...
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Building a CRUD Application with Flask and SQLAlchemy - sixhobbits https://www.codementor.io/garethdwyer/building-a-crud-application-with-flask-and-sqlalchemy-dm3wv7yu2 ====== sixhobbits Hi, author here :) I've written a few similar posts and would love to get feedback from HN. Using PostgreSQL through SQLAlchemy[0] ...
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The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016) - dragonsh https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_method.html ====== notthemessiah The historical significance of Double-Entry bookkeeping can not be understated. Prior to Leonardo "Fibonacci" Bonacci bringing it to Pisa from the Arabs in Algiers, North Afric...
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Study About IP On The Human Genome Shows That Patents Hindered Innovation - yanw http://techdirt.com/articles/20100727/03224210373.shtml ====== lutorm I guess that's not surprising. It's more surprising to me that anyone allowed patenting of the human genome in the first place. How someone could equate "sequencing" wi...
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A Warning About JQuery 3 - un_montagnard http://blog.bugsnag.com/a-warning-about-jquery-3 ====== nilliams It's good to see this was recognised as a bug and quickly fixed. Meanwhile in spec-adhering Promise land, a similar problem still exists [1], which is why I recently banished es6-promise, and in turn fetch/fetch-p...
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How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras - _emacsomancer_ https://medium.com/applied-data-science/how-to-build-your-own-alphazero-ai-using-python-and-keras-7f664945c188 ====== pixelpoet I'd really like a good tutorial for combining MCTS with NNs, but this tutorial didn't help me at all really. MCTS is...
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Pallet, Clojure Dev Ops like Chef and Puppet - flashingpumpkin http://palletops.com/ ====== flashingpumpkin I really like that they opted to do everything over SSH in contrast to both Chef and Puppet that need a client/server configuration or at least some of their packages installed locally. We do all of our deploym...
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Starship SN5 150m Hop - reddotX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HA9LlFNM0 ====== w_t_payne Is the engine supposed to be on fire like that?
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Host your own is cynical - chmars http://tante.cc/2013/05/20/host-your-own-is-cynical/ ====== PaulHoule I'm not sure the world cynical is right. I'm reminded by a person who was involved with the independent media center movement who couldn't bear letting people post MP3s to his site, so people only could upload og...
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ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project - jaas https://letsencrypt.org/2017/10/17/acme-support-in-apache-httpd.html ====== cholmon I'm curious how renewals will be handled. According to [https://github.com/icing/mod_md/wiki#no-auto-restart-when- st...](https://github.com/icing/mod_md/wiki#no-auto-restart-when-start...
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To Learn How to Program, It Has To Fulfill A Need - djblue2009 http://djchung.tumblr.com/post/40104231149/to-learn-how-to-program-it-has-to-fulfill-a-need ====== Aardwolf Heh, in my case when I started to learn how to program, the need was "having fun" I guess. ~~~ djblue2009 That's a valid point. Did you start pro...
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Check out my new sports startup Chestbumpp - dannyp32 http://chestbumpp.com Chestbumpp allows you to create and join sports groups to compete with athletes in your area. Each group will be for a specific sport and it will have an overall skill level and time/location where the group usually meets. I'm also thinking a...
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How We Tried 5 Privacy Focused Raspberry Pi Projects - ophelia https://blog.cryptoaustralia.org.au/2017/10/05/5-privacy-focused-raspberry-pi-projects/ ====== fulafel Last time I looked, about 6 months ago, Raspbian didn't get timely security updates, and the only low-maintenance distros that supported RPi & had their ...
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Ask HN: Review our startup, PollerBare - nmaio Hey everyone. Our site, http://pollerbare.com has been live for about 10 months. It's a site for indie musicians to post their music in a downplayed battle of the bands theme.<p>We have kind of put this project on the back burner because we don't see how we can monetize...
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Is css-tricks.com updating their site? - hubtree https://css-tricks.com/ ====== kostarelo CodePen also has been redesigned. Not sure about their site.
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C# Tutorials, Lessons, and Reference | Gimme CSharp - rueleonheart http://gimmecsharp.blogspot.com/ ====== RiderOfGiraffes Dear ruelionheart, I refer you to my article here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606098> Please - stop spamming Hacker News. And let me just add that even though I simply _love_ gettin...
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Ask HN: Coolest/most useful tools implemented in browser? - JCOdom I am a front end developer, and with the browser becoming more and more powerful over the years (JS standardization, emscripten, wasm, webgpu), I&#x27;m curious to look at some of the powerful tools that people are building in the browser.<p>I tried se...
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Every Lost episode visualized and recreated - Adrock http://intuitionanalytics.com/other/lostalgic/ ====== dt7 This is pretty fun to play around with, if a bit difficult to navigate- I kept flying all over the place when trying to look at a particular episode in the initial view. Amazing work anyway, and as a (heavy...
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Crowdsourced homework help - dalacv http://www.hwcrowd.com/ ====== anuy is this not Homework plagiarism. i am not sure why people can not use the regular resources 1)do prepare for the class befor e the lecture 2) follow the lectures in class room/virtual class room 3) follow up with the professor/tutor for question...
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My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts? - fookyong http://peterpings.com/ 2013 will hopefully be a move away from B2C stargazing, bread-and-butter client work (app development etc) and a move towards scalable software services. ====== josscrowcroft Could this also work for an already-established but un-marketed compan...
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Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry - gammarator http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-google-should-buy-music-industry.html ====== ethank A few things, and I'm speaking as a (now former) major label executive: Google should not buy a label or a music company. It wouldn't make sense at all. The frictio...
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The Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia - miorel https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/the-wikidata-revolution/ ====== UVB-76 Yes. This is the future.
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Startup wants you to fund Hyperloop, and help design it too - ph0rque http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57600528-76/startup-wants-you-to-fund-hyperloop-and-help-design-it-too/ ====== simonebrunozzi I think this is a good thing. Let me explain. 1) You can think that there are hundreds of OTHER things worth pursuing, i...
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Homeless with GoPro Cameras in SF - simple10 http://www.homelessgopro.com/ ====== mbillie1 This seems questionably close to "exploit the homeless by monetizing them" to me.
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Meet Google Helpouts - The Amazon.com of the Information Economy - lucasdailey http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/24/meet-helpouts-googles-secret-plan-to-bring-live-video-commerce-to-local-businesses/ ====== lucasdailey Ok, not only is this an awesome idea, but I wireframed basically the identical thing; I called it Goog...
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Facebook loses its VR case, has to pay $500M in damages - lefstathiou http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/facebook-loses-vr-case.html ====== sctb Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13544871](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13544871).
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Show HN: I wrote a book on Practical Evolutionary Algorithms in Python notebooks - shahinrostami https://shahinrostami.com/posts/search-and-optimisation/practical-evolutionary-algorithms/preface/ ====== shahinrostami All of these are Jupyter notebooks which I've made available for free. It's a practical book and I wan...
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IoT, 4K, virtual reality signal a critical need for broadband speed - PaulHoule http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/story/internet-things-4k-virtual-reality-signal-critical-need-broadband-speed/2016-03-30 ====== kayoone I think there should be more focus on latency and upload improvements as well. With all the realtime s...
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Panel says problem schools hurt nation's security - tokenadult http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/03/19/panel_says_problem_schools_hurt_nations_security/ ====== michaelpinto Many folks in NYC feel that under Joel Klein the schools actually went down in quality -- and now he's working as a flack for News...
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Ask HN: Managed dedicated hosting recommendations - midnightmonster I'm an avid user of linode-type virtual dedicated servers, but I have a client who wants a fully managed and supported option. Virtualization is fine, but it needs to be able to pass a basic PCI remote scan and questionnaire (not actually storing ca...
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Senators decry link between Egypt and U.S. 'kill switch' bill - MikeCapone http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20030332-281.html ====== lukev I still haven't heard a single remotely plausible argument for why a kill switch is a good idea. What's the worst that a "cyber attack" can do? Take down the internet? So why do...
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Ask HN - Are Dataless Apps the next big thing? - knicholes Serverless -&gt; Dataless? Recently at a developer conference, someone from AWS came to talk to us about serverless apps. We joked that the next stage would be &quot;dataless&quot; apps. Apart from the joking, however, I thought there might actually be some...
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Jerry the Bear: A robotic learning coach for kids with type 1 diabetes - hallieatrobohub http://robohub.org/jerry-the-bear-a-robotic-learning-coach-for-kids-with-type-1-diabetes/ ====== hallieatrobohub Back Sproutel’s crowdfunding campaign to get Jerry the Bear, their robotic healthcare coach, into the hands of ever...
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“If You’re Not Pissed Off, You’re Not Paying Attention” - cnst http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/issues-insights-blog/save-wireless-choice.htm ====== upofadown I am pissed off that the powers that be are still allocating separate spectrum for separate companies. That worked once for analog cell phone service. It doesn't ...
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Attention Is All You Need - espeed https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7181-attention-is-all-you-need ====== eggie5 This paper has a lot of prerequisites to understand. A good paper to read is precursor to this paper released a year ago: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01933](https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01933) ------ bthornbury ...
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Can you grow a startup only from organic traffic? - toutouastro ====== trevelyan My startup is still on page five of Google and our traffic is almost all word- of-mouth. So it is possible but it is not fun. Very easy to get bitter when you see the spam that floats above your stuff and hear people tell you that Goog...
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Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian military jets and captured a pilot - sky_nox https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47383634 ====== mgolawala Having two nuclear powers shooting each other's planes out of the sky should make the whole world nervous. In a perverse way, it is probably a good thing that they are b...
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Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode Default SSH Key Vulnerability - el_duderino https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190501-nexus9k-sshkey ====== tastroder While it's overly flippant, I somehow enjoyed the register's take on it: [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
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National Radio Quiet Zone [US] - golfer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone ====== brudgers Recent related discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748474](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748474)
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Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA - gavv42 https://gavv.github.io/articles/new-network-transport/# ====== gavv42 A brief summary. I'm working on Roc, a toolkit for real-time streaming over the network. Among other things, it provides command-line tools and PulseAudio modules that can...
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Yahoo Reaches the 2 Quadrillionth Bit of Pi - spoon16 http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/09/a-cloud-computing-milestone-ya.php ====== chaosmachine I guess they have a lot of free machines now that Bing does their search results. ------ photon_off In case you're really wondering, it's zero. ------ Tichy I'm sur...
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Comodo “Chromodo” Browser disables same origin policy - polemic https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=704 ====== steckerbrett Ah the old, break the PoC to make the researcher stop complaining move but don't fix the underlying insanity. Classic. ~~~ david_shaw My background's in applicati...
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L.A. to declare 'state of emergency' on homelessness - flannery http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-funding-proposals-los-angeles-20150921-story.html ====== EnderMB I remember reading something about how one of the biggest hurdles of tackling homelessness is dealing with those who were made homeless t...
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German 270 syllabus: sovereignty and the limits of globalization and technology - haaen https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5677718-Thiel-German-270-Syllabus.html ====== haaen Stanford course by Russell Berman and Peter Thiel
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Show HN:A wrapper for GraphQL-dotnet that makes life easier - michannne https://github.com/Michannne/graphql-core/ ====== michannne Hi, I'm the creator of this library. I created it because at our business we are developing more React applications and it made sense to use GraphQL to speed up development time (less RES...
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Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down - ohjeez https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/10/dozens-of-suspicious-court-cases-with-missing-defendants-aim-at-getting-web-pages-taken-down-or-deindexed/?postshare=6791476107006382&tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.0143e0970aee ...
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Show HN: Copycat – a free tool to synchronize files between repositories as PRs - ajaskiewicz https://developers.livechatinc.com/projects/development/copycat/ ====== ajaskiewicz Our devs built Copycat when creating our (LiveChat's) docs and then they decided to share it with the world. You can use it not only for sync...
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“Ninety percent of doctors I know are fed up with medicine.” - czik http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/views/17essa.html?em&ex=1214020800&en=8c0530d81bc8f12f&ei=5070 ====== jraines Yeah, my dad, a family practice physician for 20 years, would confirm this. His monthly overhead costs (in a tightly run physician...
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New phenomenon breaks inbound TCP policing - RachelF https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2530363 ====== colanderman Title is wrong; updates come over TCP that has been modified not to perform link sharing. I have seen this with my wife's computer. Though I haven't seen the large- window phenomenon (ha...
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TOPLAP 15th Anniversary 84 Hour Live Coding Stream - glitcher https://www.youtube.com/eulerroom/live/ ====== glitcher This features graphical and musical artists performing "live coding" sets. This concept is new to me, curious if any HN'ers here have experimented with any live coding techniques or groups?
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EU wants battery autonomy, but first it needs graphite - ajaviaad https://techxplore.com/news/2020-02-eu-battery-autonomy-graphite.html ====== 8jef This is where they want to source it: [http://nouveaumonde.ca/en/](http://nouveaumonde.ca/en/)
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In The Pursuit of Becoming Unlimited - QuantumGuy Hi hackernews, lately I have felt like I am limiting myself too much so I decided to unlimit myself entirely. My blog To Be Unlimited will chronicle my journey to become unlimited http://tobeunlimited.blogspot.com/ any feedback on it is much appreciated. ====== javaj...
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The Healing Power of Birdsong - tintinnabula https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/may-june-2020/the-healing-power-of-birdsong/ ====== BrianB I've been watching my neighborhood birds for a while now and they indeed have individual personalities. It's pretty cool to know for example when a neighborhood cat is approaching,...
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GNUstep Developers Consider Forking the Project, Moving Away from FSF - protomyth http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNUstep-Possible-Fork ====== lightlyused No link to GNUstep in the article. That says a lot.
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Que: A fast, concurrent job queue for Ruby and PostgreSQL - chanks https://github.com/chanks/que ====== grosskur Nice! I really like postgres-based queues. Another one is [https://github.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic](https://github.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic) It uses LISTEN/NOTIFY. It might be interesting to...
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Best Home Wireless Routers for Spring 2015 - entrode http://www.domolith.com/2015/02/best-home-wireless-routers-for-spring-2015/ ====== entrode I know new routers like the D-Link AC5300 DIR-895L/R are forthcoming with faster processors and more streams, but I wanted to take a look at the home wireless router market ...
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Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber - MarlonPro http://news.yahoo.com/teen-am-not-boston-marathon-bomber-175755674--abc-news-topstories.html ====== blahedo FFS, ABC: "Barhoun's younger brother, who declined to be identified..." Seriously? First of all, the kid is under 18, so you shouldn't be identifying him a...
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Inside V8 - A Javascript Virtual Machine - nreece http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Erik-Meijer-and-Lars-Bak-Inside-V8-A-Javascript-Virtual-Machine/ ====== jamie I'm a little confused by how Google plans to go back and add further optimization steps. From what I gathered from the video, they s...
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Audio interview: Thomas Fuchs on Scripty2 and the future of Prototype - netherland http://thechangelog.com/post/1408568115/episode-0-3-9-scripty2-zepto-js-vapor-js-and-more-with-t ====== pavel_lishin I really wish we'd solve the problem of transcribing spoken words. There are many things I'd like to listen to, but I...
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10 Story-Driven Websites that will blow your mind - peachananr http://www.onextrapixel.com/2013/04/24/10-story-driven-websites-that-will-blow-your-mind/ ====== brilliantday Wow! These are bookmarked worthy websites. Cool especially the Paranorman and My Life in 20 Years. :) ~~~ peachananr Thanks! Glad you liked it....
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Planimeter - gballan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planimeter ====== dTal It is not intuitive to me why this works, which is very exciting because it'll be fun when I "get it". Is there somewhere online that explains it in an intuitive way? ~~~ gballan I don't get it either. Tell you what -- I'll put something toget...
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The Internet sky really is falling - urlwolf http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/home/httpd/htdocs/columnists/2009/050609-johnson.html&pagename=/columnists/2009/050609-johnson.html&pageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/050609-johnson.html&site=print ====== slavox I found...
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Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform - dsr12 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-needs-to-run-and-be-easy-to-use-on-every-platform/6935 ====== the_grue I'm a big fan of Rust, used it for several projects already, loved it. Too bad much of the systems programming is currently tied to C/C++ infras...
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American Hacker: Frank Lucas Waxes Poetic on the Dangers of Outside Investment - pius http://piusuzamere.com/2007/11/14/american-hacker-frank-lucas-waxes-poetic-on-the-dangers-of-outside-investment ====== muhfuhkuh Perhaps bootstrapping and bootlegging go hand in hand. That is, go it alone for as long as you can get...
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Just work hard - antigua http://thehundreds.com/blog/2011/07/12/just-work-hard-its-not-hard-work/ ====== wdewind As a millennial who actually works his ass off I always feel somewhat compelled to respond to these. Many of my friends who just graduated, especially non-developers, actually want nothing more than to pu...
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Ask HN: Any interest in a free course on patents and IP for startups? - scromar The HN community seems to be anti-patent (especially software patents) in general, however knowledge is power. Would you be interested in a free course on patents (and intellectual property in general) tailored specifically for startups,...
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A visual brief on icon history through different GUIs and operating systems - jfaucett https://historyoficons.com/ ====== henrikschroder Anecdote, and a billion times more interesting than that overview of Windows icons and a sales pitch: When I was at university a long long time ago, I took a class in user interface...
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Workstation Show and Tell - warvo http://warvo.com/2009/11/workstation-show-and-tell/ ====== chrischen Boy and I thought I was cool with my two differently-sized monitors. ------ warvo Haha yeah i reckon ay. You should post that comment onto my blog rather than on here :) I am more likely to reply.
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Upcoming Changes to PNG Support at Twitter - polm23 https://twittercommunity.com/t/upcoming-changes-to-png-image-support/118695 ====== dpedu Semi-relevant thread about tricking this upload/convert system to keep images in PNG: [https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/1077786781133631489](https://twitter.com/FioraAeter...
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Ask HN: Any recent alternative to “”http the definitive guide“ - soulbadguy Looking a good book which provide an in-depth overview of http. &quot;http the definitive guide&quot; seems to be getting old. And doesn&#x27;t cover HTTP2 and Oauth and openID authentications. Any alternatives? ====== auganov As obvious as it...
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A New Improved Lottery - gwern http://lesswrong.com/lw/hm/new_improved_lottery/ ====== skilesare This isn't a terrible idea if we can attach some wisdom of the crowds and human intelligence to reduce the randomness. It is what I'm trying to do at [http://hypercapital.info](http://hypercapital.info)
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Using Raspberry Pi 3B+ as an Oil Tank Monitoring Solution - pettycashstash2 http://myoilguage.com/ ====== pettycashstash2 I wanted to check my heating oil tank from anywhere and anytime and not worry about running to the basement to check oil level. I also wanted to prevent middle-of-the-night run-outs, especially dur...
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Zirtual Shuts Down - bamazizi http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/10/zirtual-pause/ ====== bamazizi This can't be real! She was just on 'This Week in Startups' (TWIST) and Jason was drooling at Zirtual's $11m run rate after only couple of years. (Jason Calacanis is an investor) Was she lying throughout the interview? Is ...
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Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts - artemisbot https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hptvkprkvp23 ====== dang Most comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24322861](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24322861). ------ jgrahamc This isn't a Cloudflare-specific issue...
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Scientists at MIT create mathematical model to predict alloy characteristics - arjn http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/1546-mathematical-shortcut-create-new-metals.html ====== blix At the risk of being a downer, this isn't that interesting from a computer science perspective. What happened here is that standard comp...
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The tapeworm that turned into a tumour - DrScump http://www.nature.com/news/the-tapeworm-that-turned-into-a-tumour-1.18726 ====== DrScump This case is _not_ the very recent case from Napa, California (see cbslocal link posted subsequent to this for that story)
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India’s data labellers are powering the global AI race - yarapavan https://factordaily.com/indian-data-labellers-powering-the-global-ai-race/ ====== LogicRiver This is the new back-office for AI processes and looks like India is tapping into it just at the right time just like the BPO boom in the early 2000's. ~~~ Gp...
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Is your startup idea already taken? - kjbinu http://whittleidea.com/blog/is-your-start-up-idea-already-taken ====== staunch The difference between something merely _existing_ and something _remarkable_ existing. If you find that someone has already done your idea, and they've executed well, consider abandoning your...
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Ask HN: Connect Laptop to TV without HDMI - naveensky Hi,<p>I am looking to use my Samsung Smart LED TV as an extended display for my laptop but wirelessly.<p>I am surprised that there is no option available to me except connecting via HDMI wire or purchase a WIDI device (which will only allow streaming videos). I a...
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Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5: problems, changes and new APIs - bpierre http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios7-html5-problems-apis-review ====== dashultz Yeah - we are hitting some odd issues but there is still one that I've yet to confirm. It appears that cookies are not being shared from safari and home screen bookm...
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Sweden fines pirate $650,000 for illegally sharing a single film - madhukarah http://engadget.com/2013/12/18/sweden-pirate-fine/ ====== kken This should be put in context. This is no unassuming teenager who downloaded a film via a file sharing network and was caught "distributing" it, due to the nature of file shari...
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Who’ll Put Out Company Fires When Tech Workers Are at Burning Man? - petethomas http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-43300 ====== informatimago And who cares about company fires? The important thing on this planet are the Humans, including those who are at Burning Man, not the fucking companies. ------ ant6n It seem...
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