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The DS GPU and its fun quirks - justinweiss http://melonds.kuribo64.net/comments.php?id=56 ====== Jasper_ The DS "GPU" is indeed very bizarre and shares more in common with the GBA 2D rasterizer than a modern 3D GPU architecture. That it's a scanline renderer that can handle quads directly should be a pretty big tell ...
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Bulk Call Details Records Collection Ends: What That Means - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/bulk-call-details-records-collection-ends-what-means ====== logn The EFF really should do a better job of explaining what this means in practice. Their last paragraphs hint at it, but they should make clear that...
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AutoCAD Coming to Mac (and iOS) for First Time in Nearly 20 Years - gphil http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/technology/31autodesk.html?_r=4&src=busln ====== tedkimble A step in the right direction, I suppose. But as a hacker and an architecture grad student, no industry infuriates me more than the architectural soft...
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Tragedy Of The Social Gaming Commons: A Blueprint For Change - dwynings http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/03/tragedy-of-the-social-gaming-commons-a-blueprint-for-change/ ====== mohitk Rampell is correct in calling for some sort of regulation and its just a matter of time before someone steps up to the plate. Just l...
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NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own - tortilla http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/nsa-refused-clinton-a-secure-blackberry-like-obama-so-she-used-her-own/ ====== fabulist This is a classic story that gets repeated again and again, and security professionals should ...
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Clojure + Processing + Live-coding at the REPL - phren0logy http://automata.cc/live-processing ====== octopus Can you use the OpenGL bindings from Processing in your application ? This would be an interesting application for doing some OpenGL graphics on JVM. I didn't used Clojure, how difficult will be for a Schem...
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NASA's research into intelligent life support simulation - zeristor http://traclabs.com/projects/biosim/ ====== zeristor Last time I looked at this it was Java/CORBA code, with a GUI front end. I'd love to run 10k simulations headless to test for robustness, as I recollect they model small environments and have the h...
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How I discovered I have the brain of a psychopath - danso http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/03/how-i-discovered-i-have-the-brain-of-a-psychopath ====== api Two possibilities here: (1) this adds fuel to the neuroskeptic fire, or (2) the author is a high-functioning psychopath. I've often wondered if ...
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Duped by Innocence Project, Milwaukee man now free - whbk http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/duped-by-innocence-project-milwaukee-man-now-free-b99386015z1-281852841.html ====== ajdusiejdbd This is the kind of thing that happens when the victims family members are forced to rely on the prosecutors office and the ...
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We Have The Grammar Police. Why Not The Math Police? - tokenadult http://www.creativitypost.com/education/we_have_the_grammar_police._why_not_the_math_police ====== zwieback The reason we have the grammar police but not the math police is that grammar is somehow encoded in our brains at a more fundamental level than...
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How to Deal with Startup Failure (Reload) - wilschroter http://www.forbes.com/sites/wilschroter/2013/06/21/how-to-deal-with-startup-failure-reload/ ====== dmor $30 million in sales to bankruptcy in 6 months? That's crazy, I didn't realize that was even possible. ~~~ wilschroter If you get over your toes in operatin...
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Apps are trouble for apple - williamldennis http://blog.willdennis.com/2013/02/08/apps-are-trouble-for-apple/ ====== pedalpete This is a bit of a double edged sword. Competitors will always make apps to compete, and with the app store, Apple is competing with other app makers. If apple is able to always make better ...
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500Startups invests in 9 additional Mexican companies - diego http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/28/500startups-invests-in-9-additional-mexican-companies/ ====== griscuevasz Congratulations guys!
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Space station pilots 'interplanetary internet' - vaksel http://www.itnews.com.au/News/149945,space-station-pilots-interplanetary-internet.aspx ====== pavel_lishin And thus begins the network of the Qeng Ho. ------ zandorg It's a shame I don't have this system to cope with the disruption of 45 second adverts.
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The coming automation of propaganda - donara https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/the-coming-automation-of-propaganda/ ====== im3w1l Imagine you go to an online forum and that there is a 99.99% chance that a given message was written by a bot. Imagine further they are sufficiently well written you can't tell from the pos...
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Ask HN: what costs more? a 1 kB email or an SMS? - dotcoma Does it cost more or less to GMail to send a 1 kB email compared to what it costs a mobile operator to send an SMS? My guess is that a 1kB email is cheaper, but does anybody know how much cheaper? (or more expensive) ====== ismarc The cost is all about scale...
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Apple just unveiled its second wearables platform - kevbin http://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2016/9/13/airpods ====== MrLeftHand Oh my god, this article can't be more wrong. A wearable extends your capabilities without compromise. Like a smartwatch gives you much freedom the be connected, monitor your health, organize...
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MeetingBurner Debuts Sleek, Webinar Platform To Rival WebEx - aresant http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/meetingburner-debuts-sleek-webinar-platform-to-rival-webex/ ====== aresant We just launched MB out of BETA this AM after signing up around 25,000 users over the past 6 months and load testing like crazy for a week....
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Ask HN: Why I can't upvote on a comment? - Slashed I asked this question yesterday in a comment and someone pointed me to read FAQ.<p>Well, I did. There's something about 'preventing from abuse'. How come all of my up-votes considered as abuse? I mean, I can't upvote <i>any</i> comment here. ====== ErrantX I had thi...
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Ask HN: Is there any good OSS for interactive Windows automation? - danscan I am hoping someone who is more familiar with Windows can make a software recommendation for me that&#x27;s central to a new project I&#x27;m starting.<p>I&#x27;m working on a gaming app that involves automatically installing games on Windows....
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Texture is a toolset for the production of scientific content - matthberg https://github.com/substance/texture ====== okket Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12663274](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12663274) (8 months ago, 39 comments) ------ radarsat1 > It has first-class support for ...
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Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width? - sathyabhat http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/148677/427 ====== hsmyers The way I remember it was a bit more complicated. IBM initial card size was originally based on the size of a bank note. To say the IBM just had 80 columns isn't enough, they also toy...
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Microsoft Makes World's Most Ethical Companies List - sytelus http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/aapl-msft-sbux-ge-pep-tgt/3/16/2012/id/39943 ====== codgercoder for some meanings of "ethical"
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For anyone doing Coremetrics dev: A tool for Chrome. - dialmaster https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coremetrics-bar-for-chrom/llegcghmokaemodgdddnchiijfdbfnlg?utm_campaign=en&utm_source=ha-en-na-us-webapp-collections-editors_picks&utm_medium=ha I got really tired of being tied to the official Coremetrics tagb...
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On being an AI in a box - lisper http://rondam.blogspot.com/2008/10/reflections-on-being-ai-in-box.html ====== gizmo I don't think it can be done. First of all, I'm assuming that Eliezer started this experiment because he realized that the Transhuman AI would be able to convince him in the function of gatekeeper to...
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OpenGov Got Seat at White House Roundtable and Is Part-Owned by Kushner Family - masondixon https://www.wsj.com/articles/startup-that-got-a-seat-at-white-house-roundtable-is-part-owned-by-kushner-family-1500045800 ====== abhv Which scenario is more likely: (1) Thrive capital becomes the top firm for supporting startu...
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Tampa Criminal Lawyer - cdenmon http://denmonlaw.com ====== bediger Total spam.
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CloudFactory Raises Growth Capital To Create Jobs for 1 Million People - aakarpost http://blog.cloudfactory.com/2012/09/cloudfactory-raises-growth-capital-to.html ====== bishwas 1 million jobs! glad that its happening in the land of Himalayas :) ------ karmath Congratulations ------ jitubutwal144 great!! ------ s...
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Basic Chessboard with Angular Material CDK - ezracode https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chess-ec7ad.firebaseapp.com&#x2F;<p>and the github repository<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ezracode&#x2F;grandmaster ====== ezracode The code is on the following path [https://github.com/ezracode/grandmaster/tree/master/chessboa...](https:...
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Genetics may explain up to 25% of same-sex behavior, giant analysis reveals - drocer88 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/genetics-may-explain-25-same-sex-behavior-giant-analysis-reveals ====== drocer88 Actual paper here : [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/eaat7693](https://science.sciencemag.org/c...
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Navy to Drop All-Caps Communications - duck http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/12/navy-to-drop-all-caps-communications/?mod=e2tw ====== aroch OK, this earned a chuckle out of me. When I was in college I had a professor who used to be in the Navy who would also send ALL-CAPS emails to us.
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The end of dynamic languages? - tazjin https://www.tazj.in/en/1448375823 ====== dudul I have to say, it is always quite comical to see all dynamic languages trying to shoehorn some form of static type checking. Like the author I like Clojure a lot and somehow agree with Bob Martin who calls it "the last programming l...
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Everyone's A VC - brlewis http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/09/everyones-a-vc.html ====== devmonk I'm not saying that it isn't exciting for sure, but Diaspora as the sole namedrop product out of that? Not that Diaspora isn't cool, but it is an unhosted, alpha-grade, open-source project with no apparent business model co...
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How Not To Sell Out: Talk by Matt Haughey of MeFi on growing a site into a small business - halo http://metatalk.metafilter.com/16577/How-Not-To-Sell-Out ====== halo I think this is a good antithesis to some the hype that you read about growing a big business on the "next big thing", people taking millions from vent...
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Big Brains, Small Minds - Futurebot http://chronicle.com/article/Big-Brains-Small-Minds/236480 ====== CuriouslyC The process of trying to unravel the gordian knot of cultural evolution may develop the ability to think critically, but it is surely a sub-optimal method for doing so. Imagine if people learning science we...
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Testimony on HB552, to Legalize Bitcoin for Payments of Taxes and Fees - kauffj http://blog.lbry.io/testimony-to-subcommittee-on-hb552-to-legalize-bitcoin-for-payments-of-taxes-and-fees/ ====== umeshunni While I agree with nearly everything he says in that testimony, being less flippant/hyperbolic and more factual mig...
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Apple's Mac Mini Is Now Three Years Old, No Refresh Date in Sight - bangonkeyboard https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/16/mac-mini-now-three-years-old/ ====== pippy The lack of effort on the Mini line demonstrates Apples focus on profit over its customers. Boosting desktop market share, gaining new customers, while stil...
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Apollo – A modern CISC CPU design compatible with the Motorola M68K - doener http://www.apollo-core.com/? ====== glitch Digging deeper under the Forums, some random tid-bits... • Releases: [http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=6](http://www.apollo- core.com/knowledge.php?b=6) ◦ FPGA image: [http://www.apollo- ...
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Moto X Feature Video Leaks - thezach http://technow.info/2013/07/moto-x-feature-video-leaks-from-rogers/ ====== cromwellian I'm going to guess that it is a little fancier than that, because simply being "always on" would kill the battery, the CPU would have to be constantly running hotword detection. It needs to have ...
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Dominant players over time - b_emery http://xkcd.com/ ====== b_emery This is so awesome. I'd like to see similar for golf, cycling, baseball ...
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Jakob Nielsen responds to responsive mobile criticism - j_c http://www.netmagazine.com/interviews/nielsen-responds-mobile-criticism ====== micheljansen In the article, Dr. Nielsen has this to say about Responsive Design: > JN: Because I was writing about user experience, not implementation This is _exactly_ why so...
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With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube - minimaxir https://waxy.org/2020/04/jay-z-orders-deepfake-audio-parodies-off-youtube/ ====== crazygringo So if I understand this correctly... _YouTube_ took these videos down based on a copyright (DMCA?) claim. Which of course isn't a cou...
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Microsoft patents "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS - spking http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/06/microsoft-patents-avoid-ghetto-feature-for-gps-devices/ ====== prodigal_erik EVE Online would seem to be prior art. The system keeps statistics on players killed recently, and the autopilot has an option which avoids dan...
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A drop-in replacement for Twitter’s deactivated unofficial share count API - franze http://opensharecount.com/ ====== swang So their decision is because of a tech-stack switch (Cassandra to their own Manhattan)[0]. Redoing it in Manhattan apparently is too resource intensive and not enough users care about it for them...
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Why Apple won’t dump Intel x86 for its own ARM chips in MacBooks and the Mac Pro - nkurz http://www.extremetech.com/computing/187513-why-apple-wont-dump-intel-x86-for-its-own-arm-chips-in-macbooks-and-the-mac-pro ====== fidotron It is amazing how defensive (perhaps necessarily) the Intel crowd are, especially around...
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Windows 10 Goes to Shell - fezz https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/windows-10-goes-to-shell/ ====== fezz They went all out with a snazzy video for terminal: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE) ~~~ orcasauce I can't tell if the embossed effect is part of the video, o...
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MySQL is a Better NoSQL - yoava http://engineering.wix.com/2015/12/10/scaling-to-100m-mysql-is-a-better-nosql/ ====== JonahBraun Interesting that he advocates MySQL. PostgreSQL can index and interact with the JSON stored in it's columns, which make it a better choice as a NoSQL replacement. [http://www.postgresql.org...
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Richard Stallman’s Disgrace - jmsflknr https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrace ====== bsaul I’m sorry but people seem to forget what the archetypal geek looked like in the 80s. Fat, smelly, eating burgers in front of his computer all day, awkward and drooling at the sight of any woman. From what...
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bit.ly hackathon (NYC 10/20) and API contest (win a MakerBot) - aditya http://meetup.com/hackabit ====== aditya In case the title doesn't make it clear, the API contest is open to everyone (not NYC only!) More: <http://blog.bit.ly/post/1307062006/its-a-bit-ly-api-contest>
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Why airplane windows have round corners (2016) - smacktoward https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/09/why-airplane-windows-have-round-corners/ ====== gmueckl Stress concentration, especially at sharp corners, is a well known phenomenon. During the second world war, the US manufactured transport ships in an assembly line fas...
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Gabe Newell Is Doing an AMA - rinesh https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5o8fsy/gabe_l_newell_will_be_joining_us_tuesday_the_17th/ ====== gigatexal WHY WONT WE GET Hl3!?!?
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Getting users to tag the 166,000 patterns on Ravelry - pingswept http://blog.ravelry.com/2010/07/09/its-time-for-a-ravelry-search-party/ ====== pingswept ~85,000 patterns tagged in the first day. Pretty effective means of organizing content.
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Ancient Beers - MaysonL http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=9000-year-old-brew-hitting-the-shel-2009-06-05 ====== wyclif Dogfish Head (the brewery) is right here in little 'ol Delaware. Even if it weren't my hometown microbrewery of choice and there was no bias, I think I'd still be a fan after trying...
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1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017) - Thevet https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-1600s-england-through-eyes-one-first-travel-writers-180963536/ ====== yesenadam It's about Celia Fiennes' _Through England on a Side Saddle In the Time of William and Mary_ "She trave...
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Creating Children's Story Animations Using Inkscape and Animatron - pshapiro99 http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/blog/creating-childrens-story-animations ====== rayalez To anyone interested in doing 2D animation on linux, I highly recommend TVPaint. It's an incredibly awesome software, the best one available on any...
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What Musical Notes Can Look Like - tintinnabula http://nautil.us/blog/this-is-what-musical-notes-actually-look-like ====== JoeDaDude So it sounds like these are effectively the same thing as Chladni Patterns [1] using a liquid surface. It reminds of composer Stuart Mitchell [2] who believed he saw Chladni patterns car...
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Kernel analysis with bpftrace - Twirrim https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793749/a5a7c5282076c094/ ====== _wmd The joy with bpftrace (and dtrace before it) for me is this ease with which 'synthetic' profiling events can be constructed from multiple underlying events. This can be used to, for example, only record the late...
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Let’s give up on academic freedom in favor of justice - yummyfajitas http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/?page=single ====== Millennium I believe the name to look up in this case is "Trofim Lysenko". This social experiment has been performed once already, and its ...
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Risk Aversion And The Perils Of Selling Too Early - quilby http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/28/risk-aversion-and-the-perils-of-selling-too-early-israeli-startups-part-ii/ ====== enjo This brings to mind a really interesting story. I had the chance to work with a guy who had just sold his business. It turns out tha...
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Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox - dochtman http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/12/20/mozilla-and-google-sign-new-agreement-for-default-search-in-firefox/ ====== gojomo Some additional data points to help parse this: • the agreement appears to be with the Mozilla corporation, rather t...
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How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons - samclemens https://longreads.com/2017/08/04/how-to-stop-apologizing-for-my-stutter-and-other-important-lessons/ ====== forthelove Stutterer here. Was in speech therapy for a long time as a child; my sister actually became a speech therapist b/c of t...
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Show HN: Jazzroom, collaborative real-time music hack in Node.js - sthatipamala http://nowjs.com/jazzroom ====== alextgordon Three suggestions: 1\. There needs to be a way to get a reference to a room (so I can give it to friends) since I'm yet to find a room where anybody else plays anything. 2\. Would be nice to...
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TypeScript – The Myth of the Superset - jbandi http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2016/10/myth-of-superset.html ====== BoorishBears At work I needed a fast scripting environment for Android. Not everyone who'd be scripting for the application knew Lua (or Squirrel) so I went with J2V8 (Java bindings for V8). The first proble...
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The Woman Who Can't Recognize Her Face - sofperseus http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23482-mindscapes-the-woman-who-cant-recognise-her-face.html ====== lobster_johnson I had an interesting case of momentary face blindness once. It was unnerving. I was elbowing my way through a very busy bar area (it was early and...
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Spolsky's Paradox - edw519 http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/05/Spolskys-Paradox.aspx ====== tx Splolsky's problem is that his software is even more pedestrian, boring to work on, and useless than Microsoft's data synchronization products that he's making fun of. I know there are FogBugz users out there but I have...
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A Maven plugin that creates merge requests for dependency updates - oweiler https://github.com/helpermethod/dependency-update-maven-plugin ====== moheb Good ~~~ oweiler OP here: The plugin is in currently at a pretty early stage but already used productively. It was developed because I wanted something like DependaBo...
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Writing code that writes code with Hack Codegen - ctice https://code.facebook.com/posts/1624644147776541 ====== nerdy I would really love to use Hack, but I want to use it in the editor of my choice, not the editor of Facebook's choice. Because Hack isn't PHP all of the foundations are gone, consider this text from t...
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PiDrive 314GB Offers Power-Efficient Storage for Raspberry Pi - devNoise http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/data-storage/raspberry-pi-hard-drive-pidrive-187871 ====== gravypod Are there any provisions for redundancy?
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The Efficient Cloud: All Of Salesforce Runs On Only 1,000 Servers - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/23/the-efficient-cloud-all-of-salesforce-runs-on-only-1000-servers/ ====== ErrantX Ive long respected the approach of Salesforce: whilst this is new info to me I am not surprised at the efficiency. Pretty impr...
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Startups Worry that Twitter and Facebook Are Blocking Their Way - iProject http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428691/startups-worry-that-twitter-and-facebook-are/ ====== Rhymenocerus duh ------ sulife What is this fluff piece doing here?
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Modular Moto Z Android phone supports DIY and RPi HAT add-ons - leephillips http://hackerboards.com/modular-moto-z-android-phone-supports-diy-and-rpi-hat-add-ons/ ====== dharma1 I looked into adding GPIO to an Android/Ubuntu phone a while ago.. Something like this should work with many phones for about $20 - [http://w...
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I like to try an experiment on HN. Have your say - faramarz I have a web app idea I would like to see come to reality.<p>I want the very first step to be an HN post explaining my idea, and then calling for talent/partners from this community to build a team around the idea.<p>Next, produce a prototype and finally ap...
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Ask HN: Should I stay or should I go? - XXthrowawayXX I've been the sole developer with a startup for about 2 months now. I have serious doubts about the team and am doubtful that the product will be successful (right now all the money is coming from one of the co-founder's pockets).<p>No one else on the team seems ...
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Human Echolocation Allows People to See Without Using Their Eyes (2013) - Mz http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-human-echolocation-allows-people-to-see-without-using-their-eyes-1916013/?no-ist ====== panglott Saw Daniel Kish give a lecture a few months ago, and this amazing ability is a lot more accessib...
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The Faculty of 1000 - robinhouston http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/the-faculty-of-1000/ ====== _delirium The physics approach seems to be doing something pretty close, through the de- facto combination of traditional journals and arXiv. As the post says, the arXiv isn't itself peer reviewed, but many ...
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Forget About the Mythical Lone Inventor in the Garage - polymathist http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/05/argonne_national_lab_director_on_the_myth_of_the_lone_inventor_in_the_garage.single.html ====== ajdecon Well, like so many other things, it's field-dependent. :-) If you're working in soft...
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Collected List of New JavaScript Features (ES6 and ES7 and ES8 and ES9 and ES10) - stnp https://github.com/daumann/ECMAScript-new-features-list ====== stnp I couldn't find any repo that lists all the interesting features of newer ES releases, so I collected individual ES release feature list examples into a single rep...
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Programming at the REPL (2018) - tosh https://clojure.org/guides/repl/guidelines_for_repl_aided_development ====== piercebot The REPL is still something that I haven't quite mastered, but what I enjoy doing right now is working in files and using a REPL connection to evaluate expressions within the file. It feels like...
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Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads - ahiknsr https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-will-stop-reading-your-emails-for-gmail-ads ====== jikeo I know I shouldn't be surprised, but it seems weird that the reporter nor any of the 140+ comments so far seemingly don't mention the recently ...
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Python 3 ... - lifthrasiir http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2013-May/011394.html ====== jumblesale The same functionality in Perl: [https://www.inkling.com/read/programming- perl-christiansen-4...](https://www.inkling.com/read/programming-perl- christiansen-4th/chapter-4/the-ellipsis-statement) It's a fun ...
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Alexander Grothendieck’s Mathematical Archives at University of Montpellier - fermigier https://grothendieck.umontpellier.fr/archives-grothendieck/ ====== fermigier 18000 pages of mostly manuscript notes were released today by the University of Montpellier, following an agreement with Grothendieck's heirs. These note...
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Cicada 3301: The web's most baffling and eerie crypto-puzzle is BACK - ronaldsvilcins http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/11/cicada_3301_2014/ ====== valarauca1 This years challenge seems more difficult, breaking an RSA-400+ bit length key is no easy task for most people to do at the drop of a hat, and normally the...
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Amazon Signs Climate Pledge to Advance Paris Climate Accords Goals by 10 Years - CitizenTekk https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/19/amazon-signs-climate-pledge-to-advance-paris-climate-accords-goals-by-10-years/ ====== Zhyl >I don't know about you people but I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the wor...
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ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan - ingve http://2ality.com/2018/12/nodejs-esm-phases.html ====== apo Meanwhile, Deno (alternative server-side JS built from scratch by the creator of Node) keeps chugging along: [https://github.com/denoland/deno](https://github.com/denoland/deno) It will be interesting to s...
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Mt Everest: Why the summit can get so crowded - mpweiher https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48401491 ====== wirthjason When I was studying in Japan in college a Japanese friend and I climbed Mt. Fuji. You basically take a bus about half way up, then hike 80 or 90% up to summit then spend the night in a cabin. Since ...
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Can anyone recommend any good ASP.NET blogs? - piers There are some good blogs about PHP, Ruby and Python out there, but I haven't come across many good ASP.NET ones. The ones I know about are Scott Gu and Scott Hanselman, but I haven't found any other really good ones. Anyone here either have one, or can recommend ...
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Opera 10 Browser UA string format changed to accomodate bad applications - aj http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-ua-string-changes/ ====== niyazpk This is the take away from the article: "Browser sniffing — unless you’re writing a web stats application — is always a bad idea. It’s a misguided attempt to send ...
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Blockchain Tech Can Save Banks $20B a Year - cdvonstinkpot http://www.coindesk.com/santander-blockchain-tech-can-save-banks-20-billion-a-year/?utm_content=buffere8f19&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== NeutronBoy As someone who's worked in banking tech, I can assure you the banks kno...
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Assembly 2015 demo party results - zaf http://www.assembly.org/blogs/2/posts/24/ ====== onion2k As a web dev doing 3D stuff, I'm seriously impressed that the 6th place entry in the demo comp (I Want To See Small Worlds[1]) was created with three.js. They're doing great things with it. [1] [http://archive.assembly.o...
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Ask HN: Why does it cost $1.4B to take the US census? - jedberg I was reading an article today about the head of the census quitting, citing lack of funding from the Trump admin. In the article, is says they requested $1.4B to take the 2020 census, $936M of which was for &quot;computer system upgrades&quot;.<p>I unde...
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Show HN: SUPERCLASS – The business plan for Target Audience - MrJonesEdition https://mrjonesedition.com/superclass ====== MrJonesEdition Hi HN! I made this. Here's some info on the data before everyone goes berzerk :) Use 'HN' to have access, good luck on your projects :) I built this to help individuals and profess...
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Build this Scheduling App, Please. - JoelMcCracken I always find that setting meeting times is really inefficient. I would this simple solution:<p>I go to a web and say "request new event scheduler", which then simply gives me a url to share. Anyone who visits the url can add themselves to the calendar, add availabl...
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FreeBSD 10.3 - jlgaddis https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-April/001713.html ====== dallbee Of particular note: This release brings 64 bit support to the Linux compatibility layer. I suppose when windows caught up Bash on Windows, FreeBSD needed to do something to keep one step ahead =]. ~~~ a...
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Fojo.us - Open Drive : Show HN - hoogaguy http://fojo.us ====== reubensutton It would be great if there was a page explaining what it does, or if you could post on here. I'm assuming it's like a browser based Dropbox, which anyone can access if they have the path and key right? ~~~ hoogaguy Yup, thats it. Basic ph...
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Save $ on gas, reduce traffic jam: share rides (hosted on google app engine) - tt http://www.ride4all.com ====== truebosko The implementation kind of sucks but good idea. I'm in Canada but tossed my commute up there to see if anyone wants a ride. ------ noelchurchill Really basic. Not bad.
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The Radium Girls - vilda http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/02/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste/ ====== tzs For those who want more on this, there's a recent book on this subject: "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore [1]. ...
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So Long, Bill Gates, and Thanks for the Monopoly - edw519 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2008/06/gates_monopoly ====== pg "But the upside was enormous because the monopoly created a stable environment where entrepreneurs could develop new companies and new products around a common platform." This is false...
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Google search algo: downgrade pages bloated with ads above the fold - zalew http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html ====== p0wn3d Remember back in the 70's and 80's before cable TV? We only had channels 3,6, and 7. We loved TV but couldn't stand the commercials every 5 minutes...
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I create a sweet React progress bar - obraz_TOR https://github.com/abraztsov/react-sweet-progress ====== tonybaroneee Well done!
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Nanofluids increase the efficiency of Nuclear Reactors by up to 20% - karamazov http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/spotlights/nano-nuclear.html ====== cincinnatus Pure water is used to prevent radioactive isotope contamination. It seems unlikely this will not be a problem here.
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