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San Francisco Is Preparing for Life After This Tech Boom - getgoingnow http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-09/san-francisco-is-bracing-for-life-after-this-tech-bubble ====== matt_wulfeck Honestly, at this point it's too late to start "preparing" for a pop. I'm dubious the city can come up with 6 years o...
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Simonne Jones on the Intersection of Science and Pop Music - arbitraryy http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/27/simonne-jones-gravity-interview/ ====== arbitraryy (Full disclosure. Simonne is a friend) We all love reading about inspiring people with immeasurable passions for creating. I am especially moved when those pass...
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68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one system - bmj1 https://blog.cyber.fund/huge-ethereum-mixer-6cf98680ee6c ====== ve55 Why is the link at the top of this article ('cyber•Fund') to [https://cyber.fund/system/Paragon](https://cyber.fund/system/Paragon), a page for 'Paragon', a very shifty high-budg...
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Ask HN: Do you use gmail for work? (Yes/No) - gregmuender Just answer "yes" or "no" in the comments. I'm curious because we are vetting both Microsoft Outlook and gmail apps. ====== misiti3780 yes
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Rudder: An etcd backed overlay network for containers - pquerna https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-rudder/ ====== wmf I'm glad to see this since an easy overlay for Docker is badly needed. But ugh, userspace encapsulation. This would be a lot better if it used OVS + VXLAN. ~~~ philips The plan is to add more backend...
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Aggregated Feedback from YC Partner on Today's Show HN - kevin For those of you who didn't know, I reviewed a bunch of Show HNs today. Many thanks to everyone who submitted Show HNs. I’m really sorry if I didn’t make it to your post. Some posts were beyond me to review…like that 99 Haskell project…well, I did lik...
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A great list of command-line tips - shocks http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/ ====== avar The #1 thing that'll improve most people's workflow is learning how to use readline effectively. I'm continually amazed by how many people who use shells daily use the arrow keys to navigate around, don...
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A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell - benologist https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-cia-calendar-the-cia-gift-shop-refuses-to-sell-yes-and-heres-the-strange-story-behind-it/2016/12/28/bde03862-c604-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html ====== escape_goat It would be interesting to gain some professional i...
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Show HN: Monthly Rentable Gitlab/Jenkins CI Runners - hardwaresofton https://runnerrental.club ====== sytse Cool to see this. By the way at GitLab we're planning to charge per minute for runners [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab- ee/issues/3314](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3314) ~~~ hardwaresof...
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WildDuck IMAP server compresses emails by 56% - andris9 https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck#storage ====== jepler This looks cool, anybody used it yet? ~~~ andris9 I don't think it's been used much as the project is fairly new. Wild Duck powers [https://ethereal.email/](https://ethereal.email/) but this is mostly ...
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Quintura for Kids - intuitive and safe search engine for kids - Paul http://kids.quintura.com ====== e1ven That's a very clever site, but I worry about scalability- If you're adding links manually you're going to run into the same problem that yahoo ran into, but without the Ad-revenue to try to overcome it. I'm also...
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Supreme Court sides with tech company in patent dispute with Postal Service - donohoe https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/trending/SpK9IoiRrI-acWR0VMVU1g2 ====== duxup >The Postal Service then petitioned the Patent Office to review the patent, and the Patent Board agreed with the Postal Servic...
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Ask HN: New research topics in networking ? - vinutheraj Hi, I am starting on my MS thesis this year. I am looking around for some good areas in networking to do my thesis in. I worked in VANETs ( Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks ) for my BS degree. I didn't find the field that fun though. Can someone suggest some good top...
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CIA Secretly Owned Global Encryption Provider Spied on 100 Foreign Governments - dsego https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/02/12/cia-secretly-bought-global-encryption-provider-built-backdoors-spied-on-100-foreign-governments/#323824f8580a ====== a3n > "Spying between friends, that's just not done,'' Ms Merke...
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Google Search Stories - EricBurnett http://www.youtube.com/searchstories ====== TotlolRon also here: <http://www.search-stories.com> and with an SEO friendly domain.
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Faster Python calls in Cython 0.21 - andreif http://blog.behnel.de/posts/faster-python-calls-in-cython-021.html ====== raymondh Nice work Stefan :-) For people who care about performance, Cython Numba and PyPy are a vital part of the Python ecosystem. They let you create highly performant code while retaining Pytho...
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Ask HN: Haiku? - Red_Tarsius <p><pre><code> Reply in haiku. See one you like? Upvote it! Gather points to win! </code></pre> Original thread (6 years ago): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=780569 ====== MichaelCrawford There was a young lady from Bright Who traveled much fast...
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Research paper: Interstellar flight is at least 200 years away - llambda http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.1066v1.pdf ====== Steuard It's an interesting analysis, but I'm extremely dubious about the degree of extrapolation going on here. It's hard to imagine that the past 25 years have been typical in human history, or for ...
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Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter - Issue 62 - sebg https://www.dashingd3js.com/data-visualization-and-d3-newsletter/data-visualization-and-d3-newsletter-issue-62 ====== jnazario didn't know about this, kind of cool, we use some D3 at work. however, would be nice with some graphics ... just sayin.
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Ai Weiwei: The US is behaving like China - fchollet http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/11/nsa-surveillance-us-behaving-like-china ====== defuzz I always thought the PRC is behaving like the USA, because it tries to close the economical and technological gap to competing nations. Not bad for a single-par...
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Show HN: Kim – A Python serialization and marshaling framework - mikeywaites http://kim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ====== sandGorgon We are really looking for serialization libraries that will work with pandas and scikit. This stuff is really all over the place - PMML, Arrow, Dill, pickle. Some stuff won't work with ...
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India Approves World’s First Passenger Hyperloop System - redpillor https://www.archdaily.com/922794/india-approves-worlds-first-passenger-hyperloop-system ====== gameoftrolls_ Next step, a Hyperloo system
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If Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It a Sex Crime? - cratermoon https://gizmodo.com/if-your-vibrator-is-hacked-is-it-a-sex-crime-1820007951 ====== mikehines The headline sounds like a Philip K Dick title. ~~~ ellius Hahaha nicely done ------ ashildr Being a relatively kinky person myself I’d still. consider shoving quit...
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Drupal developers wanted. Pay rate: $10-$12/hr - Tangaroa Just thought I'd forward this wage scale for a recent job opening to give readers an idea of what the programmer job market is like outside of San Mateo:<p>Hourly Rates (Introduction):<p>Intern $10-$12 / hour<p>IC $12-15 / hour<p>Hourly Rates (Experienced wit...
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The Dirty Secret of 10x Engineers - ericxtang http://www.erictang.org/blog/2014/01/17/dirty-secret-of-10x-engineers/ ====== doctorwho Some people are just better at exploring problem spaces, avoiding dead ends and making insightful connections that lead to solutions. It doesn't always come with experience, some people...
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Ask HN: If you could build anything, what would you build? - traverseda You&#x27;re already wealthy beyond compare. Profitability doesn&#x27;t concern you. All the standard startup stuff has fallen by the wayside.<p>What do you build? Do you hire a team, or are you building it to learn? ====== panorama This doesn't an...
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Analysis Paralysis: Stop worrying about your code - gadr90 http://blog.gadr.me/stop-worrying-about-your-code/ ====== marcoagner Very good. This excessive and paralysing worry used to affect me and I still got some. Very real mistake. ------ gestapo Good, good.. We are watching. ~~~ gadr90 Thanks for the viewership...
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Pig: high level language to process big datasets via Hadoop - bayareaguy http://www.scribd.com/doc/2027476/pig-webscale-processing-Yahoo-Research ====== bayareaguy Christopher Olston from Yahoo Research presented Pig at the UCB DBMS lunch talk today. It's a framework that translates a high level processing specifica...
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How Slack impacts workplace productivity - charlieirish https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/1/18511575/productivity-slack-google-microsoft-facebook ====== cvs268 _> How Slack impacts workplace productivity_ like all tools, it impacts positively when used in the "right" way (TM)
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Ask HN: How should I design my MS in CS curriculum? - cubecul I&#x27;m coming from a social science background. I&#x27;ve taken a C++ course, data structures, discrete math and intro to systems programming. I would love some advice on how to think about how best to plan my MS in CS.<p>The requirements are loose: 12 ...
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We can't get enough of audiobooks - prostoalex https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/13/listen-up-rise-of-audiobooks-steven-poole ====== Wowfunhappy I was very disappointed to see this article complain about Audible DRM without mentioning the variety of DRM-Free audiobook providers. • downpour.com • libro.fm •...
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Closing Communities: FFFFOUND vs. MLKSHK - _pius http://waxy.org/2017/04/closing-communities-ffffound-vs-mlkshk/ ====== AdrianRossouw I ran a large online community with tens of thousands of users that existed for nearly 19 years. When it came time to close it down, I left a notice on the site for several months befor...
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Ask HN: Best file format for archiving photos - reaperducer Today I discovered that macOS Catalina dropped support for some raw image formats. I have 20,000 photos from 19 countries archived in one of the newly non-supported formats. Lots of people long dead, and places that no longer exist, or that I will never be ab...
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Respect: Poland on ACTA [video] - mazsa http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=YPiV_SB-scM ====== mazsa \+ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQdMtSmkVBs>
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What are the best resources to learn Spring framework? - navbehl Hi, I&#x27;ve recently started working on a project built on Spring framework. I&#x27;ve worked on Java 8(mostly Android and only used lambdas) and Play framework(Scala) ====== gdfer The spring reference docs are quite good. I'd take a scan through those...
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Ask YC: How much do you make on advertising on your site? - mixmax A lot of startups are depending on advertising on their site, but it is often hard to find numbers on what kind of income you can expect from this.<p>The numbers, of course, vary depending on your niche and your audience, the type of advertising you ...
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In short the US has no clue where Snowden is. - ForFreedom With all their PRISM tech the US cannot find Snowden which is clear from the Bolivian incident. ====== nishithleo India has rejected NSA leaker Edward Snowden's request for political asylum, the External Affairs Ministry said Tuesday. [http://www.wral.com/in...
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Chatbot Fail - imartin2k http://thewalrus.ca/chatbot-fail/ ====== SixSigma Clicking buttons is not inherently superior. Text interfaces work very well for a subset of people.
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In 2016 LA voted to spend 1.2B on the homeless, but the problem keeps growing - wallace_f https://youtu.be/gazX_feRSW0 ====== wallace_f I quickly searched for an estimate of the homeless population within LA city: ~36,000. At 1.2B that is over $33,000/person. Honestly, I wonder at what point can we look at these resu...
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Amazon S3 and offline development - ACSparks Let's say I want to use S3 to serve all of the images for my site; I also do alot of my developing offline on a local setup.<p>Do I just have to bite the bullet and have the page layout broken when I am not online? ====== ACSparks Nevermind, I can just use htaccess to red...
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Ask HN: A friend introduced me to a client, now he wants a 25% cut - thrwwwy123 I work as an independent software consultant in a somewhat specialized area. A friend recently introduced me to the founders of a company that are looking for help in this area. It&#x27;s interesting work and I want to pursue it. However, ...
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Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music - ClassicalmOnly https://classicalmusiconly.com ====== ClassicalmOnly Hello HN! I am really excited to show you Classical Music Only, a social website dedicate to discover, listen and discuss classical music. I actually tried to do a "show HN" thread 6 months ago w...
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Show HN: Uranus – Memo and Task App - resotto https://github.com/resotto/uranus ====== k2enemy I love new note taking and TODO apps, but Docker, Tomcat, Java, Postgres, etc for a minimalist web app? Seems overkill. ~~~ resotto Thanks for your reply! So you mean you want more functional one, right? ~~~ pointytrees I ...
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Pragmatic Bookshelf announces new Pragmatic Guide series - tswicegood http://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2010-08-25.html?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=%5BBookshelf%5D+Pragmatic+Guide+series%3A+Pragmatic+Guide+to+Git&utm_campaign=%5BBookshelf%5D+Pragmatic+Guide+series%3A+Pragmatic+Guide+to+Git&utm_...
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Show HN: Strategy maps for software development – now free for solo users - rocksoug http://www.systemmeasure.com ====== systemmeasure In response to HN feedback, you can now use systemmeasure.com as a solo developer for free.
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April 1 Executive Order permits sanctions against cyberattackers - corndoge https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/01/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-engaging-significant-m ====== vijayboyapati AKA donating to Edward Snowden is now a crime.
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Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment - Galeno http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002086 ====== grkvlt See also _Open-Source 3D-Printable Optics Equipment_ published March 2013. The article is available as an open access PDF as well: http://journals.p...
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Verizon Suffers Cloud Data Leak Exposing Data on Millions of Customers (2017) - Varcht https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/verizon-suffers-cloud-data-leak-exposing-data-on-millions-of-customers/d/d-id/1329344 ====== Stefan-H I find the reporting of this as a "data leak", as opposed to a more aggressive term, rather conc...
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Did a Chinese hack kill Canada’s greatest tech company? - goatinaboat https://www.afr.com/technology/did-a-chinese-hack-kill-canada-s-greatest-tech-company-20200706-p559gu ====== Normille Paywall.
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Linux 2.6.37 - Linux Kernel Newbies - mattyb http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_37 ====== requinot59 For the french people out there, a summary of the main new features is available here: <http://linuxfr.org/2011/01/05/27723.html>
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Betacup Challenge - Design A Sustainable Coffee Cup - Tichy http://www.thebetacup.com/ ====== philk I have a hard time seeing how this is anything other than a feel-good distraction that provides little in the way of real benefits. Non-disposable coffee cups do not make up a meaningful proportion of our environment...
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Big data: are we making a big mistake? - feelthepain http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xH3TZgd9 ====== api I think there are two things here. First is the suspect notion that mere statistics can supplant understanding. It sort of boils down to "with enough data, correlation no...
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Association of insulin resistance marker with severity and mortality of Covid-19 - sudoaza https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-020-01035-2 ====== arkades Please note: The calculation of TyG is ln (fasting blood sugar) x triglycerides/2). Many studies make the error of calculating it as (ln (FBS ...
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Ask HN: How to talk to someone who's been a victim of child abuse - justask I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such questions, but I'm out of choices, so I figured I'd give it a shot.<p>Without me knowing what emotions it would set off, yesterday I pointed my girlfriend to read the HuffPO article about B...
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Too Many Cooks – Exploiting the Internet-of-TR-069-Things (2014) [video] - milankragujevic https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6166_-_en_-_saal_6_-_201412282145_-_too_many_cooks_-_exploiting_the_internet-of-tr-069-things_-_lior_oppenheim_-_shahar_tal ====== badrabbit This is one of my favorite C3 talks. I wonder how many TR...
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Why Do We Need Data Science When We’ve Had Statistics for Centuries? - petethomas http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/05/02/why-do-we-need-data-science-when-weve-had-statistics-for-centuries/ ====== pitiburi So, so much ignorance in only one paragraph. It states that Statistics was only able to understand what is going on n...
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My Mistakes - jobeirne http://www.gwern.net/Mistakes ====== javert Too bad he is still wrong about a lot.
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Testimony of Ms. Soon Ok Lee (2002) - mckee1 http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=4f1e0899533f7680e78d03281fe18baf&wit_id=4f1e0899533f7680e78d03281fe18baf-2-1 ====== guyht For anyone who is interested on reading more about North Korean prison camps, Blaine Harden's 'Escape from camp 14' is an incr...
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Opencats Applicant Tracking System - brudgers http://www.opencats.org/ ====== frompdx I hate to judge a project by the technology choices but no SSL on the landing page and PHP is just the tip of the iceberg here. \- Every table uses MyISAM. Interesting choice, but maybe the fancy features of InnoDB aren't really nee...
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Fake Tweet Erases $136B in Stock Market - bmahmood http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-23/fake-report-erasing-136-billion-shows-market-s-fragility ====== fr0sty Subtitle should be: Realization that Tweet was Fake Creates $136B in Stock Market. In less than 5 minutes everything was back to normal. The interesting...
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SeatGeek Powers Artist Listings For DuckDuckGo - savant http://seatgeek.com/blog/seatgeek-news/seatgeek-powers-artist-listings-for-duckduckgo ====== iowahansen How does DDG's relevance engine work? e.g. Adele is on tour right now, but DDG won't return a SeatGeek listing for it ~~~ epi0Bauqu Looks like a bug -- wil...
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The Oculus Rift Game That’s So Real It Nearly Destroyed Me - cyphersanctus http://www.wired.com/2014/07/alien-isolation-oculus/ ====== ispolin Sounds very similar to the "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat"[1] film shown at the dawn of cinema. Some of the audience supposedly jumped from their seats in terror as the lif...
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Show HN: Port of Windows UWP Xaml Behaviors for Perspex Xaml - wiso https://github.com/XamlBehaviors/XamlBehaviors ====== brudgers Perspex is a multi-platform .NET UI framework using XAML that can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS and Android. [https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex](https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex...
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Online Pawn Shops Lend Cash Fast - chocoheadfred http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203518404577094701656317574.html ====== vsl2 Brick and mortar or online, still basically a loan with a very high interest rate (~36% in this case) while also putting up collateral worth more than the loan. Only use these...
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Coronavirus prevention guide at stopcorona.org (repo link at the bottom) - imlina http://Stopcorona.org ====== imlina Need contribution for new features such as translation to different languages
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The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educational Landscape (2015) - jpelecanos https://blogs.ams.org/matheducation/2015/01/10/the-hungarian-approach-and-how-it-fits-the-american-educational-landscape/ ====== loriverkutya As a hungarian, I'm pretty surprised by this article, since the quality of hungaria...
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The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing congestion - abhi3 http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/349375-the-self-drive-act-puts-america-on-the-road-to-reducing ====== Animats The link is to a PR piece from a right-wing lobbyist. The actual bill is here.[1] It's mostly about federal preempt...
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Ask HN: Recommend a domain-name registrar.. - blintson I want to start my own website, but I'm not sure what domain-name registrar to buy it from. This place seems like a good place to ask, any suggestions? ====== rms I'm glad to hear no one has recommended Godaddy. They are not good. They raised their prices and th...
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United Airlines' 26 different ticket fare classes - billboebel http://cwsi.net/united.htm ====== billboebel Even as a 100K flyer this shit is extremely confusing to me. No wonder the airlines are so screwed up.
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Why Airbnb is dead to me - longwave http://drupaler.drupalgardens.com/content/why-airbnb-dead-me ====== flippyhead I continue to use AirBnb but have been pretty disappointed in their customer service. I rent out a family cabin occasionally and someone who stayed there scratched the floor accidentally wearing winter bo...
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Free transportation for life - prezjordan https://medium.com/we-live-in-the-future/32eeaacc207a ====== droithomme > 1\. Supercharging stations cost very little to install False. > 2\. They are solar powered False. The ones with solar paneled roofs do produce electricity which is sold to the electric company at an i...
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Ask HN: Why don't India have big open-source projects? - sudokill India has great programmers and an abundance of brilliancy similar to china but somehow there are no big open-source projects &#x2F; libraries &#x2F; languages coming from in India. I would like to ask this question to HN readers. also if you are India...
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Kill Y Combinator - brianstorms http://blog.moviegoer.com/post/16333492475/kill-y-combinator ====== phaus When the whims of an American special interest group are catered to at the possible expense of the entire global economy, not to mention the entire world's freedom of speech, I consider it only natural and respo...
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Want good health in your golden years? Keep working - jasoncrawford http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-10374175-247.html ====== groaner Interesting, though I would suspect another factor at work here: people who choose to continue working past retirement do so because they find their work fulfilling. That can work wond...
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Mashable's Responsive Redesign - gisikw http://beta.mashable.com ====== akshat I found the design distracting, and was not sure where to look first. I normally look for the main content on the left side of the screen. Since "The next big thing" column is in green, I expected that to be the primary section, but then...
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How to Vote on Hacker News - shrughes http://shrughes.com/p/how-to-vote-on-hacker-news/ ====== devmonk This is the stupidest thing I think I've ever read. Kudos to the moron who wrote it. I hope you get the HN you deserve. ~~~ TGJ Here I was thinking it was satire.
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Tech founder's tale of sex, drugs and underground lairs (2008) - slm_HN http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/11/nicholas200811 ====== dang This title is such an egregious violation of HN's rules that, rather than rehabilitating it, we're just going to kill this post. The story is of dubious quality anywa...
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Nvidia stuffs desktop GTX 1080, 1070, 1060 into laptops, drops the “M” - antouank http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/08/nvidia-pascal-laptop-specs-gtx-1080/ ====== pluma Well, it makes sense. If you're going with a dedicated graphics card in your laptop, battery life is already out of the window, so you might as we...
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Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding - atomlib https://abitawake.com/news/articles/enemy-ai-chasing-a-player-without-navigation2d-or-a-star-pathfinding ====== b0rsuk A fascinating AI technique is used in one of the best roguelikes, Brogue. The author called it "Dijkstra Maps". Basically it...
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Forcing the password gropers through a smaller hole with OpenBSD's PF queues - bootload http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2017/04/forcing-password-gropers-through.html ====== m0nty I used to do something similar for porn-site visitors when I worked at a school. Discipline was not well-enforced, I had zero authority as the IT ...
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Ask HN: Notice a jump in Page Rank today? - newmediaclay Looks like Google updated their Page Rank today for the first time since September 08. I know our site jumped to a 6. Anyone else notice a bump? ====== axod Where is the definitive place to assess ones pagerank? edit: <http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_...
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Finally, some good news about the Silicon Valley housing crisis - Futurebot http://www.vox.com/2016/3/7/11173750/google-silicon-valley-housing-crisis ====== davidw I think in some ways that this is one of _the_ issues facing the US right now. Economists generally suggest that easing the shift from low productivity ar...
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A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf] - turingbook http://www.oldlinux.org/download/ECLK-5.0-WithCover.pdf ====== rst Of possible (mostly historical) interest at this point, a similar commentary on a fairly early version of the original Unix kernel, by an Australian cs prof named John Lions -- which was v...
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The Professional Coworker - mcrittenden http://mikecr.it/ramblings/the-professional-coworker ====== lsiebert First I like a lot of this article. Thinking about one's role in the community of the company, and the responsibilites product, is important and valiable. That said: Maybe it's nitpicking, but responding to...
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China’s tyranny of characters - kafkaesq http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/07/language ====== pipio21 It is important to note that China had alphabetic systems, like Mongolian, since a long time ago. It was a conscious decision not to use them. Learning to write and read is much easier in alphabetic so the...
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Is IT bad for your health? How our jobs might be killing us - Lemeowski13 https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2016/4/it-bad-your-health-how-our-jobs-might-be-killing-us ====== noxToken > _I am absolutely convinced that I set myself up for this event over my > decades of travel, lack of sleep, late-night dinners, e...
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ScienceLeaks - kilian http://scienceleaks.blogspot.com/ ====== roadnottaken This is plain-old piracy and I'm a little surprised to see it getting up-voted on HN. There are plenty of open-access journals, but most scientists choose to publish in closed journals instead for a variety of reasons. I think the results of r...
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The Xinjiang Procedure - jacquesm http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/xinjiang-procedure_610145.html ====== myf With no attempt to disapprove the medical~execution claim, there exists quite a number of over generalization of the political and cultural background of Uighurs and Xinjiang. The history told in the ar...
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How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life - dshipper https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-naveen-keeps-track# ====== mxuribe I've been moving more and more towards conventional text files saved locally, but synced through things like dropbox, nextcloud, etc. (so that they're available wherever i am). Howe...
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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance - baq https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/ ====== dang Submitting follow-ups is not a good HN practice. It's better to link to the new article from the original thread (in t...
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AeroFS Raises $10M Series B - polvi https://www.aerofs.com/blog/aerofs-raises-10m-series-b/ ====== SandersAK I have to say that AeroFS is a company I've always admired from a distance. They don't raise that much money, they don't make a fuss, and they just keep growing. ~~~ nickpsecurity Makes them not come off as a ...
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ZeniMax Responds to John Carmack’s Comments After $500M Verdict - avisk http://uploadvr.com/zenimax-responds-john-carmacks-facebook-note-experts/ ====== gregw2 Regarding the drive-wiping, which does not seem to have been an issue the jury had to rule on (merely an relevant piece of evidence to other issues in this sui...
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Tell me your name... - pascalc16 http://tellmeyourname.com ====== dsschnau What a compelling way to demonstrate an argument I've been having with people over the years!
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Intel-Funded Study Finds AMD Procs Incl. Ryzen Vulnerable to Side-Channel Hack - Fjolsvith https://hothardware.com/news/amd-processors-past-decade-zen-vulnerable-side-channel-attack ====== uranium235 Yeah I saw this a couple of days ago this is unsurprising other than it didn't come sooner. While everybody was booing ...
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Macron Push to Drop CIA Code Quickens as Trump Calls EU Foe - DyslexicAtheist https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-06/macron-push-to-drop-cia-code-turns-serious-as-trump-calls-eu-foe ====== pjc50 Intelligence and counterintelligence among the allies of NATO is a complex business. It can't be stopped entirel...
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Semantic Snakeoil - kennethlove http://brack3t.com/blog/2011/semantic_snakeoil/ ====== matttthompson "It’s currently impossible to be 100% semantic and still be useful." I disagree. As I understand it, in this argument, "usefulness" is defined as "is styled correctly with CSS". To this end, the author cites using ...
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Store(): a temporary mailbox for all your incoming email - old-gregg http://blog.mailgun.com/post/store-a-temporary-mailbox-for-all-your-incoming-email/ ====== alexk Interesting fact: This feature has been implemented from scratch by our intern, Satshabad. ------ sync Interesting, love this functionality. Why the t...
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Is Apple's iCloud Music Match a Possible Honeypot? - phiggy http://betweenthenumbers.net/2011/06/is-apples-icloud-music-match-a-possible-honeypot/ ====== cheald This reads really poorly. MD5 hashing to identify MP3 files? Checking hash incidence in order to determine if a file has been illegally copied? Seriously? The...
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Take a Tour of the Millenium Falcon with WebGL - avgp https://spaces.archilogic.com/3d/archilogic/4yzpzool?modelResourceId=5d2038e3-dfe3-411d-b489-f1f85f61ab30&mode=view ====== CaseyJParker That was incredibly cool. I would really like to see this running on an engine with a bit more power, and some very basic FPS-lik...
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Django Async: What's new and what's next? - sanketsaurav https://deepsource.io/blog/django-async-support/ ====== Bedon292 I love Django / Django Rest Framework and have used it for a long time, but we recently dumped it from a project in favor of FastAPI. There is just so many layers of magic in Django, that it was b...
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