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Clubhouse outpaces Facebook's value per DAU by $65.6K - emiliowav
https://www.yac.com/blog/clubhouse-and-the-dawn-of-the-audio-first-revolution
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bromilio
So this is what happens when you build for VC's? lol
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DirecTV offers streaming service – end of cable? - Randgalt
https://directvnow.com
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WhiteOwlLion
What is the TV list you get access to?
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Online Free YouTube Video Downloader Websites - ycmember
https://twitter.com/myviralmag/status/1159428518381592577
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croh
check youtube-dl
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The Prolog Story (2010) - peter_d_sherman
http://kylecordes.com/2010/the-prolog-story
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mark_l_watson
I have used Lisp languages far more often than Prolog, but I do have my own
Prolog success story: I had just used ExperLisp on the Macintosh to write a
little app ExperOPS5 for the company who wrote and marketed ... | {
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iPad Usability: Year One - joshuacc
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad.html
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apitaru
For those not familiar with Jacob Nielsen, take a look at his article -
"Flash: 99% Bad"
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html>
It was written in 2000 - at the hight of Flash craze. He was right then, and
he is right ... | {
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eBook: Eloquent JavaScript (w/ integrated interface for editing and running example programs) - luccastera
http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html
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watmough
Excellent, and integrates a console for exploring programs.
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Ask HN: How do I learn more about China? - 40acres
Over the past few weeks I've been reading more and more about Chinese current events. Usually things related to government actions as most of my readings come from the NYT, Washington Post, or things posted here on HN.<p>I'd like to learn more about Chinese ... | {
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Linux IoT Development: Adjusting from a Binary OS to the Yocto Project Workflow - chaknam
https://mender.io/blog/linux-iot-development-adjusting-from-a-binary-os-to-the-yocto-project-workflow
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Lex-2008
Interesting idea, but I wonder how hard can it be and at what moment pros
overweight the work needed to rebuild... | {
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The most important thing to understand about new products and startups - dfens
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-import-thing-to-understand-about.html
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koolmoe
It's interesting to me that Paul lists humility as an (the?) important factor
leading to successful product design. It seems like there wou... | {
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P=NP: A Story - furcyd
https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/pnp-a-story/
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schoen
One thing this makes me wonder is whether you can make a mechanical lock that
doesn't leak information this way. It seems likely to me but I don't have the
right intuitions to argue about it.
If you do, is it essentially alway... | {
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Ask HN: How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project? - maqbool
Hello All!<p>what are techniques you all used to learn and understand a large codebase? what are the tools you use?
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macromaniac
You can use the debugger on low level api calls to get pretty much anywhere in
the codebase. If you wa... | {
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Open source Nextdoor alternative? - unicornporn
https://www.nextdoor.com/ isn't yet available in my country, so I'm looking for another solution. As this isn't a service that will connect the whole world, I think some sort of CMS installed at a shared hosting provider would work great.<... | {
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Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t Better - rms
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/science/06dumb.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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signa11
in the immortal words of ogden-nash:
here's a good rule of thumb:
too clever is dumb
what's more interesting is that it applies to programming. quit... | {
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Pure CSS: The "Back to the Future" logo - RiderOfGiraffes
http://code.garron.us/css/BTTF_logo/
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rue
For clarity's sake I would probably refrain from calling it "pure" as long as
the -webkit- is necessary.
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silvestrov
The page cheats a bit: the font contains "TO THE" as a single char "&" instead
of compo... | {
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Apple Event 2020 - yigitdemirag
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/event-stream/
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slg
It is very Apple to market a cost cutting move of not including power adapters
with their products as an environmental decision. Like it certainly does help
the environment, but does anyone actually believe that is the motivati... | {
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A cron pitfall that will probably snare you at least once in your career - raldi
http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/i8z20/frustrating_unix_pitfall_of_the_day_esoteric_cron/
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js2
_Frustrating Unix pitfall of the day: esoteric cron rules_
This isn't a Unix pitfall, it's a Debian pitfall. Further, it's not inh... | {
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Show HN: Iconicomi.com for creative writers - nfioravanti
http://www.iconicomi.com
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pixellab
Very cool idea! I'd love to see some examples or be able to browse other
people's stories — would be nice to make it more social that way.
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Are You a Blue Collar or White Collar Developer? - rob_r0
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/article.php/3848406/Are-You-a-Blue-Collar-or-White-Collar-Developer.htm
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thwarted
_With more than a hint of a defensive tone, he said that he didn’t go to
college. ... "Really? So where did you learn to write cod... | {
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Former Apple employees try a different management approach at Pearl Automation - hackuser
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/technology/pearl-automation-apple-alumni.html
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Animats
The article is all Apple, Apple, Apple. That's not Pearl's problem. Pearl is
in the auto accessory business, selling through all those... | {
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OpenBSD – unveil(2) usage in base - aomix
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=153262228632102&w=2
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aomix
OpenBSD's filesystem restriction utility is starting to be implemented in the
base system. This first large commit from Theo de Raadt is intended to give an
example of the intended usage of unveil(2).
~~~
gi... | {
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Tiller––a minimal and seamless device for tracking your time - adeperio
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/858670600/tillera-minimal-and-seamless-device-for-tracking-y
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adeperio
Hi, I'm Tony (founder at Tiller)
Just wanted to mention a product we are currently launching on Kickstarter:
Time tracking is a pai... | {
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Facebook could kill Google by 2012 says Analyst - collistaeed
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-facebook-could-kill-google-analyst-2009-3
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duskwuff
"Ross Sandler of RBC has done what every good analyst should do, which is say
something interesting." What he has not done well, however, is analyze his... | {
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E-Stonia and the Future of the Cyberstate - drapper
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142825/eric-b-schnurer/e-stonia-and-the-future-of-the-cyberstate
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Doomguy
Estonian here. A cyberstate does little for an economy when the people can't
afford it.
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cpursley
From the title I thought this would be ab... | {
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Phun | Great Physics Program for Kids - iamelgringo
http://www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/media.html
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huherto
Reminds me of "The incredible machine". I've been unable to find this game for
years. Hopefully someone can tell me how to get it or point me to something
similar.
~~~
csmajorfive
Oh god I spent countless hour... | {
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The Microbes in Your Gut May Be Making You Fat (2013) - DrScump
http://www.livescience.com/41954-gut-microbes-make-you-fat.html
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louprado
"If you want to stay lean, you'll want bacteria that are not very efficient"
I hope this article isn't suggesting that it is preferable to have less
efficient digestive syste... | {
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Steps for Founders Hiring a Tech Co-Founder - rmason
https://dsdoes.com/3-steps-for-founders-hiring-a-tech-co-founder-5efdaef63d52
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rmason
Full disclosure I read an early draft of this article. I made a few
suggestions and one of them ended up as a direct quote attributed to me in the
article.
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How Pfizer set the cost of its new drug at $9,850 a month - MarlonPro
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pfizer-set-cost-drug-9-050100023.html
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hackuser
IMHO this reflects the problem of applying free market principles, where cost
depends on demand, to things like healthcare and education:
1) Demand is absolute: Ho... | {
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Scientists "Herd" Cells In New Approach To Tissue Engineering - jcr
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/03/11/herding-cells-new-approach-to-tissue-engineering/
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jcr
The mentioned paper, "Galvanotactic control of collective cell migration in
epithelial monolayers," published in "Nature Materials" is unfortunate... | {
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Optimising Assembly Like an 80's Hacker - hailxenu
http://retrocode.blogspot.com/2008/09/optimising-assembly-like-80s-hacker.html
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jcl
Heh... That takes me back.
I remember a puzzle in an old demoscene document: Assuming EAX contains all
zeros except for a byte value in AL, what is the shortest number of
inst... | {
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Code Bootcamps Are a Scam and a Costly One - ilyoTheHorrid
https://medium.com/@ilyothehorrid/code-bootcamps-are-a-scam-and-a-costly-one-df45a5ee2977
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ilyoTheHorrid
Bootcamps promise to make you a programmer, yet they merely help you memorize
code, and even that, under pressure and inadequate expectations
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Twitter interface and golden ratio - sayanee
http://mashable.com/2010/09/29/new-twitter-golden-ratio/
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extension
I only see one golden ratio in that image, between the left and right columns,
and it's off by a bit. The second division relates to the screen height and
length of the tweet, which are not part of ... | {
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Making the Case for Eating Fruit - zzzeek
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/making-the-case-for-eating-fruit/?src=me&ref=general&_r=0
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zzzeek
I find this article interesting as I have a vague recollection of some paleo-
types on here equating eating an apple to eating a candy bar. "It's the same
amount ... | {
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Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Reopening America’ May Be Bots - dev_tty01
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/nearly-half-twitter-accounts-discussing-‘reopening-america’-may-be-bots
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notadog
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261815](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326181... | {
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Transfer Your Google+ Connections To Another Account - nyliferocks
http://www.technewsbest.com/2012/07/transfer-your-google-connections-to.html
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josteink
It only took Google one year to release this after opening G+ to Google apps
accounts.
In the meantime I lost interest. Oh well.
| {
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Amiga Ireland Podcast - JNRowe
http://amigausers.ie/listen/
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JNRowe
While from the folks at Amiga Ireland, they discuss far more than just their
conference and local scene.
Turns out there are plenty of things still happening...
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Air Bike Could be a Solution to Pollution - senthil_rajasek
http://online.wsj.com/video/india-air-bike-could-be-a-solution-to-pollution/60527412-D91E-41B3-B53B-3E12139E2821.html
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ruslan
The overall idea is cool, yet I wonder what is the performance of the
"engine", like its max speed, horsepowers, and bars-per... | {
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Has Apple found the perfect way of forcing its customers to buy more hardware? - datacharmer
http://literategeek.blogspot.com/2012/06/has-apple-found-perfect-way-of-forcing.html
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shreyaskulkarni
No soft corner for Apple, but guess this problem is not really apple specific.
Even newer versions of Microsoft soft... | {
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Fairphone 3 plus - MrsPeaches
https://shop.fairphone.com/gb_en/fairphone-3-plus?___store=gb_en
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cb6b70c0-cb4d
They do not support all frequencies for LTE in Europe :(
| {
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Recruiters: Don't say HTML5, you probably don't mean it - grimtrigger
http://brain.codeharmony.net/dont-say-html5.html
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grimtrigger
Crux of the issue right here:
I’ve thought a lot about why HTML5 became the codeword for CSS3. I think it
stems back to the decision by iOS to ban Flash. iOS friendly web pages n... | {
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Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix - kimburgess
https://github.com/google/nixery
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n42
I have to say, this is pretty clever. Dealing with Docker image tags for
dependencies is a real pain and doesn't make much sense. you get things like
`[package semver]-[edition]-[distro][distro version]`... | {
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QUIC Crypto and simple state machines - baby
https://cryptologie.net/article/446/quic-crypto-and-simple-state-machines/
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dochtman
Some experiments with Noise as the QUIC encryption mechanism have recently
been published:
[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3284854](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3284854)
P... | {
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We are Collage: Dada, Instagram, and the future of AI - magda_wang
https://theartofresearch.org/we-are-collage-dada-instagram-and-the-future-of-ai/
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atian
There’s not that much insight here.
It’s not wrong. It’s just not meaningful. High level abstractions are often
the worst trap for endless thought exercises ... | {
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Tunnel Boring Machines (2018) - luu
http://www.cat-bus.com/2018/01/far-from-boringmeet-the-most-interesting-tunnel-boring-machines/
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spectramax
There is a quality about TBMs which vaguely reminds me of the feeling of
getting a new LEGO set and building stuff. Imagine if we had cheap ways to
build tunnels, no mor... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is making one-page websites for apps a pain? - e7mac
Recently, the bottleneck for releasing products for me has been making the website for each of the apps. The best solution out there right now is buying templates but I'm never sure if I like it enough to shell out $15 instantly. I am wondering if oth... | {
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The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation - sridca
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43581122
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belltaco
A thing to note is that "non-vegetarian" for Indians and say, the US is very
different. Being non-vegetarian in the US means eating meat every day, pretty
much every meal. In India, there are a lot of p... | {
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} |
It’s Game Time for the Web – A Comparison Between Web Performance and Games - fagnerbrack
https://medium.com/ben-and-dion/its-game-time-for-the-web-ca8a1ab753e0
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PaulHoule
He "sciences the shit".
Really?
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Ask HN: Why is Google tiptoeing around the Olympics? - ericskiff
Today's Google Doodle is clearly Olympic inspired to go with today's opening ceremonies. Yet, when you mouse over the image, the tooltip which would usually explain the doodle lamely says "hooray for sports"<p>More interesting and worrisome is that whe... | {
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Dynamic of Opinions with Social Biases - aylons
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109819301955
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aylons
After posting, I realized there's a pre print at arxiv:
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.01052.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.01052.pdf)
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Ask HN: What's the best platform for E-Commerce? - stevofolife
I'm a MEAN stack developer and also knows Wordpress. What's the most cost effective way to start selling things online? Should I just buy a domain and install Wordpress/WooCommerce or is it worth building it in-house and do my payment integr... | {
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Show HN: Later Locker: for content that sucks on your mobile phone - bdotdub
http://laterlocker.com/
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bdotdub
Hey HN,
Just thought I'd show you guys something that I quickly threw together this
weekend.
It's a webapp that for websites that suck on your iPhone/Android/mobile phone.
Later Locker lets you email... | {
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Show HN: Prism is an HTTP and WebSocket API Gateway - jeswin
https://retransmit.io/
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jeswin
Hello HN,
I've been working on this for the past three months. I started this project
because many clients I work with (as part of my consulting gigs) have switched
to Micro Services and needed an API gateway in front of... | {
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Hammercoin – A Bitcoin-fueled game - phaser
http://mego.cl/2016/11/24/hammercoin.html
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imtringued
It's economy is going to fail like almost every MMORPG economy because they
only cover the supply side but not the demand side. Since every item is a
commodity which is mostly obtained incidentially there are a lot ... | {
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Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing - rufflelesl
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2010/09/01/windows-phone-7-released-to-manufacturing.aspx
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cryptoz
Competition is good and I hope this forces Google and Apple to continue
innovating...
However, I've seen demos of this pho... | {
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Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP. - jperras
http://github.com/lunant/lisphp
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leftnode
Happy to see PHP be taken more seriously around here. Trust me, we're not all
moronic programmers using register globals, magic quotes, and other
abominations originally available in PHP.
This is a pretty cool project... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Presumably you are now cloning Pokemon Go “with a twist”? - hoodoof
So of course your big new idea is to do something very much like Pokemon Go but with some difference or twist.<p>What's your clone plan?
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bobwaycott
Well, a friend and I have been toying with an idea since quite a while before
Pokem... | {
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Ask HN: Why does Google not offer an API to its search results? - chatmasta
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byoung2
Because with an API you could get the results without seeing their ads.
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Tool of the Day: Titanpad: Etherpad Reincarnated - greengirl512
http://www.usefultools.com/2010/04/etherpad-reincarnated/
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biaxident
Are there any new features with this incarnation?
I was really hoping people would take the original Etherpad and run with it,
but instead there have just been numerous sites r... | {
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} |
LinkedIn Violates CAN-SPAM - suking
Our company has a google apps account and recently terminated an employee and got rid of his email account. Now I get all his old email to our catch-all. LinkedIn will not let me unsubscribe from his updates to this email address without logging in - which I obviously can't do nor... | {
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Ask HN: What note-taking app you are using? - horizontech-dev
This is like the vim vs emacs of the current generation:
Notion vs Evernote; Onenote vs Google Keep; etc.<p>I have tried different note-taking apps in the last 3 years. I understand there is no one silver bullet for this. I am curious to hear your thoughts ... | {
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Microsoft Windows 7 is top choice for netbooks - dreemteem
http://news.techworld.com/mobile-wireless/3204069/microsoft-windows-7-is-top-choice-for-netbooks/
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DanielStraight
It is somewhat misleading to call Windows a "choice." Most Windows users are
probably completely unaware of what an OS is in the first place... | {
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} |
The Future of America's Contest with China - wslh
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/the-future-of-americas-contest-with-china
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deogeo
Though trade with China flows both ways, if you look at know-how and
production capacity, it only goes one way - towards China.
| {
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Live 10 years longer through playing a game - tinco
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_the_game_that_can_give_you_10_extra_years_of_life.html
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tinco
Check out superbetter.com to play the game. It apparently is a scientifically
supported way of extending your life and happiness :) Especially for those
that... | {
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} |
Our Backup Strategy - Inexpensive NAS - Anon84
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/our-backup-strategy-inexpensive-nas/
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tdavis
Our backup strategy: Automated iSCSI snapshots made 4 times a day to a
datacenter across the country from the actual servers. And we don't even have
any user data.
When it's this sim... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do all startups do SEO? - niico
I've read a couple posts here where they are pretty much against SEO or see SEO as a "bad" or cheating thing.<p>Do you in your startup/website/company do SEO?<p>Maybe I am just too much of a SEO fanboy (?) but I 'm not sure if startups focus on organic search.<p>If so, what ar... | {
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Ask HN: Copyright/IP Question - ErrantX
I've been asked this question by another person (so sorry if the details are a bit wrong) but have no real expertise there. Hopefully someone here can shed some light.<p>Hypothetically we have 2 companies competing in an indentical field: basically the 2 leading companies.<p>N... | {
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Always start with simple solution - sasa_buklijas
http://buklijas.info/blog/2018/01/01/always-start-with-simple-solution/
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zzzeek
JSON is not a human friendly config format; it has harsh rules for quoting,
brackets and commas and most importantly has no intuitive facility for
comments. YAML should be preferred t... | {
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Coroutines in C, revisited - codr4life
http://vicsydev.blogspot.com/2016/11/coroutines-in-c-revisited.html
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markpapadakis
This is a C++ coroutines framework( [https://github.com/markpapadakis/coros-
fibers](https://github.com/markpapadakis/coros-fibers) ), but its trivial to
“port” it to C.
I ‘ve also written a... | {
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} |
Bloom – Super fast and highly configurable cache for REST APIs - andersonrkton
https://github.com/valeriansaliou/bloom
======
smudgymcscmudge
I read pretty far into the readme before I realized this doesn't somehow use
bloom filters.
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roadbeats
How does it compare to Varnish ?
~~~
njharman
Vastly simpler, I un... | {
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability - msolujic
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/wsl-2-general-availability/
======
AaronFriel
In WSL1, running "wsl git status" on a moderately sized repo on an NTFS
(Windows side) drive or SMB file share is nearly instantaneous.
In WSL2, running the same c... | {
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} |
Russia Is Reportedly Banning LinkedIn - r721
https://globalvoices.org/2016/10/25/russia-is-reportedly-banning-linkedin/
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executesorder66
> A judge found that LinkedIn illegally shares non-users’ personal data
> without their permission. In what could have even more far-reaching
> consequences, the Moscow court a... | {
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} |
Dark Web vendors offer up “thousands” of Uber logins starting at $1 each - cvs268
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/dark-web-vendors-offer-up-thousands-of-uber-logins-starting-at-1-each/#p3
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halviti
Considering they have the plaintext passwords and that Uber can't identify a
breach, it's most likely p... | {
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} |
The Inevitable Death of VMs: A Progress Report [pdf] - ingve
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/papers/kell18inevitable-preprint.pdf
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paulddraper
Very interesting. Had to point the irony though
> A key hypothesis of the liballocs design is that existing VMs may be
> retrofitted onto it at fai... | {
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What Was the Scotch Whisky Boom? Part 1: Value vs. Volume - omnibrain
http://thekrav.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-was-scotch-whisky-boom-part-1.html
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zedpm
Very nice analysis of the "boom." Anyone who regularly buys single malt Scotch
has observed the strong upward movement of bottle prices in the last few
years. W... | {
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} |
Negative Rates: How One Danish Couple Gets Paid Interest on Their Mortgage - apsec112
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-upside-down-world-of-negative-interest-rates-1460643111
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metasean
Paywalled
Potentially friendly alternatives:
[http://www.australianetworknews.com/mortgage-interest-
negati...](http://www.aust... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The 9 Flavors Of Windows 8 Show The Key Difference Between Microsoft And Apple - justjimmy
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/02/the-nine-different-flavors-of-windows-8-shows-the-key-difference-between-microsoft-and-apple/
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untog
TechCrunch is overstating their case a little, here. Certainly, that
screenshot shows ... | {
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} |
WhatsApp Encryption Is a Good Start, but Businesses Need More Security - SofiaNuro
http://nuro.im/whatsapp-encryption-businesses-need-security/
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weddpros
1- serve your content over HTTPS ...
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Ask HN: What's the best welcome you've ever had when you first started your job? - andrewoons
Since we're in the process of hiring our first employees, we want to give them the best welcome possible to our current team of 3.<p>What's the best way you've ever been welcomed at a new job? Think about activ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Lottery – Can you beat the odds? - solson
http://pizzascripters.com/lottery/game/
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montbonnot
290,000,000 possible combinations at $2 a combination. That's $580,000,000
total. You make $650,000,000 after tax if you win. You're positive of about
70k. You have to be the only winner though :)
------
solso... | {
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} |
Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley - benbreen
https://www.gq.com/story/stardew-valley-eric-barone-profile
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adriand
I really love stories about people who become totally, utterly absorbed in
something, to the point where they obsessively spend time on it, in a kind of
na... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Send Email Like a Startup: Chapter 1 - alexophile
https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/guide/#chapter-1-welcome-emails
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sogen
Useful article (y)
| {
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} |
James Golick has died - waffle_ss
https://twitter.com/jill380/status/548978785404874753
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mcarrano
James was in a car accident in Mexico:
[https://twitter.com/jill380/status/549016126035095552](https://twitter.com/jill380/status/549016126035095552)
I briefly did work for Normal this past summer, where James was ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
IBM Announces Magic Bullet to Zap All Kinds of Killer Viruses - mfoy_
http://www.fastcompany.com/3059782/ibm-announces-magic-bullet-to-zap-all-kinds-of-killer-viruses
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hendler
I'm very optimistic and excited. But I'm also afraid. Fear isn't science and
this isn't my area, but I can't think of something more dang... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Playstation Network and how to ruin your brand and make users hate you - montogeek
https://medium.com/@ignacioricci/playstation-network-how-to-ruin-your-brand-and-make-users-hate-you-e83f02d9bac9
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mschuster91
Oh, the days where games shipped their own servers and one was able to setup
an entire LAN party witho... | {
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} |
Ask HN: “Freelancer” Specialties in Tech for the 2020s - third_I
Which specialties in tech do you think will rise or remain in high demand in the next years?
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third_I
(putting this in comment, I think it's more idiomatic to HN).
I think we'll see a revival of MSPs (Managed Service Providers) with a touch
of cus... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What could be the next technology boom like bitcoin? - PetoU
Bitcoin is here around 4 years. Would you expect it to explode in value 3 years ago ? Potentially.
I assume, that next technologies which will boom in next years are already here, in its infancy. What do you suggest it might be ?
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mckee1
I'm go... | {
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} |
How To Win As Second Mover - eladgil
http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/10/how-to-win-as-second-mover.html
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lazyjones
Is Google really "winning" with Android (example in the article)? Sure, they
have more smartphone deployments, but are they even earning any money with it?
Most likely nowhere near what Apple makes i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: A modern web development workflow? - tierone
Hi HN,<p>I'm embarrassed when looking at my web development work flow, that basically hasn't changed ever since I started programming as a hobby ten years ago. I have never moved beyond writing my code, testing it locally with a standard version of WAMP and then d... | {
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} |
My Y Combinator S12 Story - argumentum
http://argumentum.posterous.com/blog-hn-my-ycombinator-s12-story
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roryreiff
I wonder - do you think the great experiment for 'no idea' applications is
going to be abandoned after the upcoming class?
There is such a consensus of thought in the startup world that "ideas ar... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ebay Fees take 80% of Seller Profits - ecb29
http://elliottback.com/wp/selling-on-ebay-sucks/
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zachster
Is it fair to say that eBay is taking the profits? Or have they just created
an efficient marketplace with such a low barrier to entry for both the seller
and the buyer that profit margins are getting pushed... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Chrome Extension Manifest V3 (draft) may end uBlock Origin - nocture
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/22/chrome-extension-manifest-v3-could-end-ublock-origin-for-chrome/
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totallyashill
He actually brings up a good point later in the article, that this sounds like
Microsoft's old mantra:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguis... | {
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} |
Good sleep, good learning, good life - JesseAldridge
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
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sivers
I love this guy.
Great article about him here:
[http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...](http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=all)
See his apolog... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A conversational word-based bot game to kill your weekend (hint:not hangman) - sucoder
http://m.me/www.prashantparashar
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DrScump
(requires Facebook)
| {
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} |
Spain to become first country in Europe to roll out universal basic income - tosh
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-spain-universal-basic-income-europe-a9449336.html
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fallingfrog
I’m excited for Spain, to see how this pans out, but I’m also very afraid for
them since this kind of thing ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's your hiring process like? - dfischer
Hiring people can be a risky thing. You're bringing someone in the family and hoping they can deliver. What are some things you do to minimize that risk? Do you contract first? Coding challenge? I'm curious what others do to minimize the risk when you hav... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The frustrating journey of learning C++ in 2014 - coppolaemilio
https://medium.com/@coppolaemilio/episode-1-public-humiliation-c-86f9ac5efc7c
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high5
> someone suggested that I might be using the wrong command to build the
> program and, instead of cpp, I should use g++ (Gnu C++ compiler).
I suspect the OP was... | {
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} |
Forbes Tests New Tactics to Combat Ad Blocking - T-A
http://www.wsj.com/articles/forbes-tests-new-tactics-to-combat-ad-blocking-1463133628
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philiphodgen
I now completely ignore any forbes.com link. The pain to get to the articles
outweighed the extremely modest value of the articles.
One wonders (he said) wheth... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Explain Open Source to Your Mom - hbadgery
https://medium.com/openteams/how-to-explain-open-source-to-your-mom-6c352a7d78dc
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hbadgery
I can't explain the number of times my mom has asked me to explain what open
source is.
I wrote this fun, short article so that you can easily explain what open
source is ... | {
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} |
This man built a VR app to cure his fear of spiders - GraffitiTim
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/16/technology/fearless-vr-spiders/
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graffitishark
Really impressive use of vr. It definitely helped me get over my fear. This is
one of the "must try" vr experiences.
| {
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} |
Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name - mindstab
http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/facebook-snitchgate/
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FellowTraveler
In Mexico, bloggers are disemboweled and strung up from bridges as a warning
to others, by cartels.
In Syria, government snipers murdered bloggers to silen... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Neural Network Design (eBook) [pdf] - vonnik
http://hagan.okstate.edu/NNDesign.pdf
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arimorcos
For a book published in late 2014, it's very strange that this book doesn't
seem to mention any of the state of the art components in neural networks,
including:
- Convolutional neural networks
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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