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Best way to pull in news to my app. Theoretically. - ryanshaun I&#x27;m thinking of making an app which pulls in various news items from different publishers.<p>The app would display a list of news items that are to do with education. so would pull from BBC education, guardian and various other sources I could find...
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Lazy Japanese and thieving Germans - dhfromkorea http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/events/conferences/povertyandcapital/chang.pdf ====== devnonymous Thanks ! I haven't yet read through the entire thing, but the ideas seem interesting. It would be good to have some context about this article/paper though. This...
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This Is What Happens When a Secret Military Jet Crashes in Your Back Yard - kawera https://warisboring.com/this-is-what-happens-when-a-secret-military-jet-crashes-in-your-back-yard-a4bc1abc285d#.7bu6wpmu5 ====== justbees I loved this quote from a guy who had debris from the crash actually fly through his house. “Did ...
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Ask HN: How to make an impact on climate change? - dontreact Over time, I’ve become increasingly convinced that the biggest and most important problem we have a shot at solving during my lifetime is climate change. However my skills are in software and ML which I do think are some of the most powerful tools available ...
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New MacBook Air Ad (Parody) - gscott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ERgZ9dztk&eurl=http://a1.vox-data.com/6a00cd978d0ef7f9cc00e398d3b7d10004-html ====== cstejerean I was expecting this to be a lot funnier. Optical disks? Is that the best they could come up with? Who uses optical disks on a daily basis? ~~~ curi ...
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Frog Leap Test - dennisgorelik http://funstufftosee.com/frogleaptest.html ====== motz143 has any one able to solve it ~~~ waterlesscloud It's easy once you realize the middle state has to be alternating frogs. ~~~ motz143 yes at last solved it :)
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Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital on the Paradox of Ego and Humility - astdb https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/business/corner-office-chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital.html ====== uptownfunk I’ve read many articles like these but I think ultimately... it’s luck. I can work hard, but it’s luck. Right place, rig...
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Status IE – IE's feature status and plans - paulirish http://status.modern.ie/ ====== giovannibajo1 I would like to know from the IE team if there's a specific plan to fix the browser update issue, that is the fact that IE is by far the slower browser when it comes to user upgrades. It's exciting to see features in IE...
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Game Table: Classic board games for the Apple iPad - pieter http://www.gametableapp.com/ ====== gcheong Chess and checker type board games I can see, but I'm not sure about card games. It would seem really hard to play and be able to see your hand without letting others see it and see the board if everyone has their h...
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Sleep less for better productivity - alexheaton http://leanminded.tumblr.com/post/9800643432/sleep-less-for-better-productivity ====== gwern This is a little incomplete. It is true that it matters _where_ in the sleep cycle you wake up. You want to wake up during light sleep, or most ideally, during the occasional w...
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Attention Federal Employees: If You See Something, Leak Something - saycheese https://theintercept.com/leak/ ====== kbutler The site claims to be non-partisan, but the only presidential names cited are Republican, and it ignores abuses and issues under Democratic administrations, except the NSA surveillance scandal. ...
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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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Greplin (YC W10) open sources exception collection system - rwalker https://github.com/Greplin/greplin-exception-catcher ====== bretthoerner Similar to something we made at Disqus: <http://readthedocs.org/docs/sentry/en/latest/index.html> ~~~ th Sentry and Greplin look like they have a extremely similar feature set...
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Synthetic sensors: General purpose sensing (PDF paper by Gierad Laput et al) - mikehotel http://www.gierad.com/assets/supersensor/supersensor.pdf ====== mikehotel ACM CHI 2017 presentation (with live demo) at [https://youtu.be/hpxUrvTltJI](https://youtu.be/hpxUrvTltJI)
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The Rackspace Open Cloud: Better, Faster, More Affordable - wonderbread http://www.rackspace.com/blog/the-open-rackspace-cloud-better-faster-more-affordable/ ====== ehutch79 Has anyone been using the cloud databases? I assume they're going to optimize better than i would, especially since i'm too busy to. but their...
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Ask HN: Database schema with more than 100 tables – where can I find some? - samblr I am looking for database schemas with many tables (&gt;100 tables). Where can I find them ? I am currently using mysql and havent done serious database design. So interested in looking at samples with ER diagrams.<p>Although sportsdb....
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Tech Crunch Crashes under Apple Load? - prbuckley Did anyone else get this... Error establishing a database connection When visiting Techcrunch at 10am today? ====== jacquesm There are about 500 tech sites and they all have the 'iPad' on their front page, and they all have more or less exactly the same stuff to say ...
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Increasing usuabily in your game's design - e1ven http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4110/upping_your_games_usability.php ====== Novash I wish HN had a way to save links like reddit does. Posting here so I can track the article later when I arrive home. ~~~ jcl If you vote an article up, it appears in your profi...
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Google execs have ideas on how to run your business - mailshanx http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531056/google-execs-have-ideas-on-how-to-run-your-business/ ====== jauwe Yeah, they sure do. After all beside search and email nothing good really came out of google. I wonder how much will they pay to steal data an...
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Super Metroid and a Link to the Past crossover item randomizer - doener https://smalttp.speedga.me/ ====== doener Here is a video about that: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lsAKbw91I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lsAKbw91I)
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Microcredit examined: stimulates enterprise but doesn't help poverty - lemming http://microfinance.cgap.org/2012/04/11/latest-impact-research-inching-toward-generalization/ ====== danboarder This title makes interesting conclusion as it seems contradictory. Stimulating enterprise in a developing region generally mea...
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One Zoom to Rule Them All – Lord of the Rings Cast Reunited [video] - _bxg1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_U0S6x_kCs&feature=emb_title ====== verdverm The title does not match what the video actually is, I'm not sure what it was, stopped after ten seconds of what seemed like a music video ? ~~~ _bxg1 It's a very l...
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Ask HN: Want to build an app with me via chat? - HackrNwsDesignr Are there any hackers that want to work on a few ideas for a web app from scratch? We could build something that we ourselves come up with together and hack it together in a few hours until it's up and running.<p>I am a front-end designer. I was hopin...
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ZumoDrive announces pricing (and it's cheaper than it seemed) - pg http://blog.zumodrive.com/being-transparent/ ====== fauigerzigerk So that's roughly the same as storing everything on S3 and downloading almost all of it once per month. Of course it has functionality as well, so the pricing appears reasonable to me ...
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Myspace is still the place every music artist needs to be. - nedwin http://www.mynameisned.com/myspace-is-still-the-number-one-place-every-music-artists-needs-to-be ====== iaskwhy It amazes me everytime that nobody made a better alternative for MySpace yet. They can't win because everything new they make is really c...
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Cursors - alloyed http://cursors.io ====== Matheus28 Dev here. There's an editor at [http://cursors.io?editor](http://cursors.io?editor), but it can't submit the level to me yet. But you can type "generateCode();" and put it on pastebin and email it to me at me [at] m28.io and I'll put it in game if I like it. My ser...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX uses Linux in Starlink satellite system - vvpvijay https://androidrookies.com/elon-musks-spacex-uses-linux-operating-system-in-starlink-satellite-system/ ====== lgats This is an article on a reddit thread, but it doesn’t seem to link to the source thread. AMA: [https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comme...
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Show HN: Overstated – React state management library that's delightful to use - fabiospampinato https://github.com/fabiospampinato/overstated ====== fabiospampinato Author here. I've kind of rewritten unstated [0], because building large-ish apps with it was starting to become troublesome. Overstated is: \- Even simp...
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First Jolla Sailfish smartphones will ship on November 27 - MehdiEG http://www.techhive.com/article/2063580/first-jolla-sailfish-smartphones-will-ship-on-november-27.html ====== Zigurd This is the first high-spec handset with one of the new OSs. You can get Firefox OS on a fairly lo-spec device, and that's probably ...
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Why It Took Google So Long to End Shady Rehab Center Ads - champagnepapi https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-26/why-it-took-google-so-long-to-end-shady-rehab-center-ads ====== ballenf I would suggest Bloomberg and other media research what can be done to educate people that advertisers sometimes, once in a...
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The Calculus Trap (2005) - adenadel https://artofproblemsolving.com/news/articles/avoid-the-calculus-trap ====== nextos The way calculus is usually taught is a mess. A mix of epsilon-delta formalism, without adequate motivation, differentials and excessive focus on computations. For young students, a great introducto...
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Show HN: DataBrokerDAO – A Decentralised Marketplace for IoT Sensor Data - cryptominded https://databrokerdao.com?ref=hn ====== roderikvdv Hi, Roderik here, one of the founders of DataBrokerDAO. We would love to hear your comments and questions! And do not forget to register for the referral program!
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Jason Scott: Archive Corps - mshenfield http://www.archivecorps.org/ ====== danielsiders Context: After rescuing 1,700 boxes of manuals from a closing manual warehouse for future archiving and scanning, "goodwill and the interest in these types of project shouldn’t fade away with the completion of the main part of...
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Show HN: [p]ortal - shinemonad https://github.com/fbeline/portal ====== avitzurel One really cool trick I recently learned is defining $CDPATH. This way, when you do `cd some-directory`, you can navigate to it even if you are not on the same level. So, if you add ~/projects to your CDPATH, you can do cd project1 from...
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SETI – The Next Ten Years - elorant http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/06/-nasa-astrobiology-search-for-transmissions-from-advanced-civilizations-the-next-ten-years-weekend-f.html ====== brianolson 'some guys blog' needs copyediting. I stopped reading at two glaring typos. other than that, nice writeup. ~~~ so...
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India’s Restaurants Rebel Against Food Delivery Apps - ishikawa https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/technology/india-restaurants-logout-delivery-zomato.html ====== noego > _“The consumer believes that a discount has been his right, not a > privilege”_ It seems disingenuous to frame this "rebellion" as a moral issue. I...
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You can increase your intelligence and 5 ways to do it - jagbolanos http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=you-can-increase-your-intelligence-2011-03-07 ====== emiretsky The original paper, while not conclusive, presents an intriguing idea. But the conclusion of the article is extremely trivial. Do you r...
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New Google Maps Interface - mxfh http://googlesystem.blogspot.fr/2013/05/new-google-maps-interface.html ====== wubbfindel Looks nice. One of the first things I do when using Google maps is hide the side bar until I need it. I want full maps, looks like I'll get it.
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The Killing of Tony Blair by George Galloway MP - DaveSapien http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/22595538/the-killing-of-tony-blair?ref=live ====== arethuza It's not a documentary (unfortunately) but _The Trial of Tony Blair_ is really rather good: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Tony_Blair](http://en.wi...
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Why Agile Doesn’t Work - praveenscience https://uxplanet.org/why-agile-doesnt-work-641710709e6e ====== NotPaidToPost None of the criticisms are actually about Agile. Written by an "Agile coach"...
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‘Resist White Supremacy’: A sign. A farm. And the fury that followed - petethomas https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/resist-white-supremacy-a-sign-a-farm-and-the-fury-that-followed/2018/02/13/47e7dfa2-10e0-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81_story.html ====== xupybd “Resist white supremacy” should not offend anyone but in a time...
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Nipping Libra in the Bud - robin_reala https://mondaynote.com/nipping-libra-in-the-bud-595cea72c6a4 ====== carlosdp Idk why this article is so high up here, it's not very good. \- The article implies Facebook "already made money off Libra", that's false. That $270M goes to the non-profit Libra Association in Switzerl...
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So, *this* is what the Army thinks #futurewar is going to look like - SocksCanClose http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/net-assessment-threats-to-future-army-acquisitions ====== dang Please do not use the titles of HN stories to editorialize. That breaks the HN guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguideline...
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Ask HN: PHP, Python or Ruby? - thekevan Could you please help me decide which of these three languages to learn? (I already have hobbyist level experience with HTML and CSS)<p>I am a programming novice but I want to move forward and learn to code and build webapps/web services. Maybe down the road I could parlay the...
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Blocking protein curbs memory loss in old mice - laurex https://neurosciencenews.com/protein-block-memory-loss-13087/ ====== LinuxBender Link to source: [1] [1] - [https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/05/blocking- prot...](https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/05/blocking-protein- curbs-memory-loss-in-ol...
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Teenager builds Death Ray - 5000 sun intesity - BluePoints http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1351935/Eric-Jacqmain-invented-Death-ray-dish-intensity-5-000-suns.html ====== motters Absolutely terrible reporting from the Daily Fail, as usual.
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This Algae Battery Could Power A Tesla With 200X The Charge - shijie http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/30/this-algae-battery-could-power-a-tesla-with-200x-the-charge/ ====== finkin1 Engadget mentioned this in 2009: [http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/29/ultrathin-algae-based- bat...](http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/29/ultr...
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Ask HN: Can you suggest a Datalog engine? - AntonioL I want to ask the HN network if they can suggest of a database which understands Datalog query language.<p>I am aware of Datomic, which I think is the one of the best offering in this space, is there any other thing?<p>Also, Github recently acquired Semmle. Its Code...
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Why Hasn't OpenID Caught On? - buckpost http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/08/why-hasnt-openid-caught-on/ ====== mechanical_fish Because the intersection of the sets of people who (a) sign up for more than two websites a year; (b) know and care enough about security to avoid just using the same password on every si...
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Serverless – Passing the Buck? Pt.2 - altsang https://www.lunchbadger.com/serverless-passing-buck-pt-2/ ====== skar5151 Like the thought leadership. However predicting costs in Serverless environments can be a challenge. Infrastructure costs, even if elastic are more predictable. Thoughts on how to project spend or de...
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Ask HN: Do you watch competitors or do you prefer to not think about it? - nrthrn It seems like there are two camps of entrepreneurs&#x2F;product teams around how to think about competitors.<p>There is the Peter Thiel (Paypal) &#x2F; Jason Fried (Basecamp) camp who thinks that looking at competitors is a distraction a...
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10 Technology Predictions From The Startup Whisperer - flashinfremont http://www.startupwhisperer.com/2008/12/10-technology-predictions-from-the-startup-whisperer.html ====== charcoal What does the author mean by, "People are only an hour away from registering online for a new business."? ------ seiji Already poste...
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Ask HN: An average developer's work seems meaningless? - duochrome I have been wondering what people need. Most people would love to have a better house, furniture, food, etc. They barely need a better software.<p>I was a developer for 8 years. I worked in some corporation and some startup, and it&#x27;s the same is...
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We must ensure ISPs don't stop the next Google getting out of the garage - ph0rque http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/19/we-must-ensure-google-garage ====== russell Corey Doctorow has a thoughtful article on how ISP's are trying to limit internet access for their own benefit. (The title is a little over the...
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Much Ado About $41 Million Dollars - greglmercer http://www.give-me-information.com/2011/03/much-ado-about-forty-one-million.html ====== leeHS There is this show in Canada called Dragon's Den. I think it's called Shark Tank in the US. If you don't know what I'm talking about, basically you pitch you business idea to...
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Show HN: Drop-In Minimal CSS – Preview Minimal CSS Frameworks on any HTML Page - dohliam https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css ====== dohliam This started as a small collection of minimal (i.e., classless / boilerplate / ultralight) CSS frameworks like Tacit, Sakura, Tachyons and others. It turns out there are...
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Econ 101 for Presidential Candidates - aaronchall http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/econ-101-presidential-candidates ====== fridaa I find people often over simplify things like this. Sure, free trade is good. The issues is that we've never had a free trade deal. Our "free trade deals" come with thousands of ...
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Ask HN: Got out of coding, burnt out, how to get back in? - TyrionDrawf Looking for suggestions on what technologies are worth learning right now, both for fun factor and for employability. My current plans are to learn some Cloud stuff and get back into .NET for employability, try some game making with a friend in P...
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"37signals is the (Lotus, iPhone, Disney) of software" - vladimir http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1427-37signals-is-the-lotus-iphone-disney-of-software ====== ksvs 37 Signals is the Moosewood Cafe of software.
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When Are Nonconvex Optimization Problems Not Scary? (2015) - tpudlik https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06096 ====== tpudlik Abstract of a talk with the same title by one of the authors (Ju Sun; coming up at Duke University on February 5th, 2018): Many problems arising from scientific and engineering applications can be natu...
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Narcissistic Students Get Better Grades from Narcissistic Professors - jimsojim https://hbr.org/2016/03/narcissistic-students-get-better-grades-from-narcissistic-professors?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=harvardbiz ====== danharaj > the idea that narcissism has increased among college students over ...
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BitcoinPlus: montize your websites' visitors by mining bitcoins - snissn http://www.bitcoinplus.com/miner/embeddable? ====== matznerd It is marked insecure, there is no way mainstream users will mine or even visit a site with a warning like that popping up ...cool concept though ------ metalruler Last time I looked...
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Ask HN: When doing everything yourself, design or code first? Together? - samelawrence I&#x27;m working on a side product in my free time while I still work full-time. I am the only team member, and I will be building the initial prototype and MVP alone. I am neither an expert developer nor designer, but can handle ...
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Syncany is a FLOS, versioned, encrypted, byo-storage Dropbox clone - candeira http://syncany.org/ ====== candeira I think this is the client I want to use for replicating my desktop like Max Hodak describes[1]. It sure has enough options for target storage. It boasts client-side encryption, but the author says that "...
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Tesla Tanks After Goldman Downgrades to Sell - sillypuddy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-27/tesla-slumps-in-premarket-trading-as-goldman-downgrades-to-sell ====== JumpCrisscross Tesla went public on 29 June 2010 [1]. Since then, it has traded 1,677 days. It's average (median) movement, from open to cl...
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Show HN: Virtual Networking App - tryamtamtam https://apps.apple.com/app/connect-club-virtual-place/id1500718006Greatapptoconnecttofriends.Reallylovedit. ====== tryamtamtam Great app to connect to friends. Really loved it!
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Growing One's Consulting Business (2012) - ColinWright https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consulting_1?HN_repost ====== fchollet One should remark that the price of your services does not depend solely on how much value you're providing. That value is just the upper bound of what you can charge. The ot...
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Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures - gieoon https://ohmyperson.com/ ====== firefoxd Close to two years ago, there was a show HN for a dating app posted here. I signed up, found a couple bugs, reported them, then deleted the app. Couple month later, I got an email saying that I got a match. Downloaded it again, had ...
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A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests - novia https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality ====== dang See also [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23393914](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23393914), which is still on the front page. ~~~ adjkant Hi dang! If I may ask, wh...
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New ALPHA-g Detector Poised to Search for Signs of Anti-Gravity - DanielBMarkham https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/astrophysics/new-alphag-detector-poised-to-search-for-signs-of-antigravity ====== stephengillie > _Understanding whether antimatter obeys the same laws of gravity as matter > is an important s...
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فلسطين. top-level domain representing the Occupied Palestinian Territory - matant http://www.iana.org/reports/2010/falasteen-report-16jul2010.html ====== Cushman It's interesting that the Arabic TLDs aren't abbreviated the way Latin and semi-Latin (.рф) country codes are. I wonder if that's reflective of anything be...
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Lambda School raises $30M in quest to tackle student debt - loganfrederick https://www.axios.com/lambda-school-venture-capital-student-debt-4440700d-735b-45e0-a492-66bab6918d6d.html ====== utdiscant Congratulations on the round Austen and team! One thing I have always thought about when it comes to incentives in this...
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Functional Programming with Java - srean http://functionaljava.org/ ====== srean Taken from one of the examples : final HAppend<HCons<Boolean, HNil>, HCons<Double, HCons<String, HCons<Integer[], HNil>>>, HCons<Boolean, HCons<Double, HCons<String, HCons<Integer[], HNil>>>>> one = append(...
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Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp - galfarragem https://janet-lang.org ====== ristos This looks so awesome! It's got the best parts of a lot of languages. This is what sticks out to me: \- Really simple lisp like scheme, but reminds me of lua (and not bloated like CL) \- Has resumable fibers, no callc...
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Amazon Finally Renamed Amazon Mom to Amazon Family in US - heavymark http://amazon.com/family ====== heavymark Great news for families where dads taking a leading role in the child's childcare. Such as single dads, coupled stay at home dad, single gay dads, and gay dad couples who all adopt or through surrogacy. Outsi...
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Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts (2013) [pdf] - deweerdt http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.1886v1.pdf ====== joezydeco When do 2015 Ig Nobel nominations open up?
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Time Warner Cable Expands Metered Billing To Four More Cities - vaksel http://consumerist.com/5192997/time-warner-cable-expands-metered-billing-to-four-more-cities?skyline=true&s=x ====== paul_houle Frontier DSL, which also serves communities around Rochester, NY has also been talking about a bandwidth cap -- at a l...
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Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous? - todd8 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/the-fat-fueled-brain-unnatural-or-advantageous/ ====== rotwoof I've been doing Keto since Feb 25 2016. My primary goal when switching over was weight loss, which turned out to be easy. I'm 25, male and was experien...
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What do you think of my landing page - MaxwellM http://signup.wiyf.org I want to buy some Bing adWords to validate my business idea. Keywords: Grocery List, Spoiled Milk<p>What do you think of the landing page. Does it succinctly convey a use case and the purpose/features of the app?<p>Would a background of a shoppe...
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White House Open Data Unavailable - runesoerensen https://open.whitehouse.gov/browse ====== privong All the data appear to still be available here: [https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/](https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/) I think that might just be the usual revamping of the White House website for the...
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Norm Kerth’s Safety Poll - eloycoto https://medium.com/@JoshuaKerievsky/norm-kerths-safety-poll-bcccd5be6e44 ====== wgerard Dang, this sounds like a great idea and maybe I'm just mega-jaded, but I feel like the places where this would be most helpful are also the places least likely to: 1) Do this at all 2) Do this ...
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The most fuel efficient car ever built: 2072 miles with 1 liter of fuel - mtgred http://www.camarocarplace.com/fuel-efficient-car-ever-built/ ====== papa_bear Very cool car, very poor quality article. It reads like it was written by a syndication algorithm that throws in weirdly subjective statements at the end of eve...
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JavaScript: The First 20 Years - snek https://zenodo.org/record/3707008 ====== fizfaz some context: [http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/866](http://www.wirfs- brock.com/allen/posts/866)
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Breaking Spotify DRM with PANDA - ivank http://moyix.blogspot.com/2014/07/breaking-spotify-drm-with-panda.html? ====== moyix Post author here! I wanted to make it clear that the original technique for breaking Spotify DRM is not mine - it was developed by Wang et al. in their excellent paper, Steal This Movie: Automat...
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Scott Kelly Reflects on His Year Off the Planet - t23 http://www.npr.org/2016/03/01/468239527/scott-kelly-reflects-on-his-year-off-the-planet ====== daveloyall I love space stations and astronauts and that robotic arm! Makes me feel like a kid again. Which is probably why, every time I see photos of inside of the int...
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Delivering Breaking Bad on Netflix in Ultra HD 4K - conorgil145 http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/06/delivering-netflix-in-ultra-hd-4k.html ====== beloch For a small to medium displays at typical viewing distances (this includes most "big screen" panels you can buy at your local electronics shop), 1080p meets or exceed...
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Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005) - NieDzejkob https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/ ====== kd5bjo The modern solution to this problem is to use different types for semantically distinct categories, even if the in-memory representation is effectively identical. Noticing that you’re ...
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India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July - adventured https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/india-to-launch-moon-mission-in-july-eyes-entry-into-elite-club ====== giis Before some western-media starts their well known statement like "India is a poor country and they need to focus on their healthcare, ed...
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Chinese Phone Giant Chooses a Web-Based Mobile OS - olalonde http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429279/chinese-phone-giant-chooses-a-web-based-mobile-os/ ====== PythonDeveloper How ironic is it that a major phone company in a country that won't let its people browse the REAL web, or interact with people outside its ...
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Wheeler Resolution of 1938 - leoh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_resolution ====== leoh >...it is the sense of the Senate of the United States of America that the operation of radio broadcast stations in the standard broadcast band (550 to 1600 kilocycles) with power in excess of 50 kilowatts is definitely agai...
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Ask HN: What are your 2 favorite news sites? - tbanacek ====== csa 1\. Daily 202 from the Washington Post 2\. Money Stuff by Matt Levine from Bloomberg View Honorable mention to John Mauldin's newsletter Thoughts from the Front Line -- not a "news site", per se, but it has a nice level of insight into economic matter...
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Ask HN: Non-technical person seeking help learning how to make weekend project - jmjerlecki Please don't mistake this for the "looking for a developer to work for equity (i.e. free) to help me build the next billion dollar idea." This isn't what I am asking.<p>I saw great advice on a post on here that essentially sa...
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Youtube is down (for me). Anyone else? - dansingerman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU&noredirect=1 ====== dansingerman All video URLs I have tried (over 50) report a 500 with a screen like this: [http://oi40.tinypic.com/2ni6y4g.jpg](http://oi40.tinypic.com/2ni6y4g.jpg) Curious. Am using chrome on Mac OS...
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Ask HN: Is a .net domain good enough? - klon I'm trying to find a good name for a startup I'm working on and think I've finally found one that is really good. The problem is I've only managed to secure the .net domain for it. The .com is taken by a domain squatter who is not replying to my emails. Should I proceed wit...
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Show HN: Call GitHub (or other) API from the browser (like a mini-Postman) - gabrielsroka I wrote a short (100-line) JavaScript snippet to call the GitHub API.<p>It runs in your browser like a browser extension. In fact, it can easily be turned into a browser extension.<p>Setup and usage instructions are in the file.<...
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Apple’s hired contractors are listening to your recorded Siri conversations, too - jtbayly https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/26/8932064/apple-siri-private-conversation-recording-explanation-alexa-google-assistant ====== jtbayly From the article: "Additionally, as The Guardian notes, while Amazon and Google allow custom...
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Barack Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize - prakash http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize/article1318102/ ====== jacquesm <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870921>
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Mozilla and Unity bring games to the Web without plugins, at near-native speeds - tweakz http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/03/18/mozilla-helps-bring-unity-games-web-without-plugins-near-native-speeds-achieved-webgl-asm-js/ ====== nailer Love, love love the Unity authoring tools. Being able to publish to the web mig...
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Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - nanis https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1047 ====== SkyMarshal Security is expensive for vendors to implement, so they externalize the risks to their customers and society in general. To reverse this dynamic, "insecure by default" needs to be more expensive than "secure by default". It s...
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Portland Seed Fund: Y Combinator, it’s not. - mtrichardson http://siliconflorist.com/2010/10/04/portland-seed-fund-y-combinator-unconstitutional/ ====== bradhe First off let me say that I'm pumped that there is movement in the Portland startup scene. Even though I am not very well plugged in to the local scene (if y...
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