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Update on GoDaddy Transfer Issues - PStamatiou http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-transfer-update/ ====== jarin I also ran into a problem with GoDaddy when trying to transfer a domain name that was protected by Domains by Proxy. I first got a notification that I needed to enter into a new agreeme...
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Google sees alleged child porn in man's email, alerts police - antimora http://www.cnet.com/news/google-sees-alleged-child-porn-in-mans-email-alerts-police/ ====== ColinWright [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128951](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128951) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131407](ht...
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Don't Forget to Spell Check - bennesvig http://meghankathleen.com/post/7304034968/community-management-faux-pas-of-the-day-the-sound-of ====== stonemetal I worked with a guy who spelled poorly, ran spell check and shall we say didn't verify the results. I would get the most amusing emails because you could tell spel...
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Florida cops hope Amazon Alexa can solve bizarre murder case - ga-vu https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50269667 ====== anigbrowl Seems kinda superfluous, given that the suspect's explanation that _Ms Galva broke off one of the pointy bedposts and "it ended up inside of her"_ seems too incoherent to qualify as a...
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Freud explains why there aren't more women entrepreneurs - bpang http://bpang.posterous.com/freud-explains-why-there-arent-more-women-ent Fred Wilson wrote a blog a few weeks ago called "XX Combinator," commenting on Teresa's earlier blog which proposes the founding of "XX Combinator" to support women entrepreneurs. ...
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Blizzard internals from GDC Austin - siculars http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25307 ====== patio11 One interesting line out of many in this article: _[WoW runs on] over 13,250 server blades, 75,000 cpu cores, and 112.5 terabytes of blade RAM, [...] 1.3 petabytes of storage._ ~~~ prakash The ...
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Men’s Locker Room Designers Take Pity on Naked Millennials - tetraodonpuffer http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/fashion/mens-style/mens-locker-room-designers-take-pity-on-naked-millennials.html ====== CPLX Watching old men walk around and have conversations with each other about their wife and kids while their drooping...
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Ask HN: Colo hosting cheaper than high-end VPS, so why VPS? - tworats I've been tempted by VPS solutions, but no matter how I slice it colo hosting comes out cheaper:<p>- You can pick up a refurbished 1u server for $100-$150, for example from geeks.com . That'll get you an older processor, but often 4GB of RAM. What...
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Scientist at Work - Edward O. Wilson - echair http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15wils.html?em&ex=1216440000&en=626b5e1816f9b318&ei=5070 ====== mynameishere I remember getting into an argument with a sociology professor (in hindsight, probably a Marxist) who stated that there are no instinctual behaviors. I ...
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Psychology of music preference - dunstad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_music_preference ====== krick This article might be quite nice example for why so many people angrily reject calling psychology a "science". All that stuff is pretty much obvious in the sense of "this is what one would assume about o...
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Project Cybersyn: real-time computer control of a planned economy (1970-1973) - henning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersyn ====== mseebach It's quite telling that this attempt by a Marxist government to computerise control of the economy had it's biggest success in organising scabs during a strike. Also.. _It to...
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Stateset - domsteil http://stateset.io ====== domsteil A progressive web application (PWA) that connects your CRM, Shopify and Stripe Payments into one fast and simple interface.
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Show HN: Try, FormSubmit 2.0 with most advanced features - kesara9 https://formsubmit.co ====== karmakaze I quite like the landing page. Very no nonsense with just well laid out text. Could maybe have hand-written the HTML. The only concern I had that wasn't clear on the landing page was some assurance that the form ...
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Apple to charge $99/year to publish Safari extensions (claims developer) - UnoriginalGuy http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/397bn6/apple_wants_me_to_pay_100_to_continue_publishing/ ====== UnoriginalGuy You can read the email Apple sent out here: [http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/397bn6/apple_wants_me...](h...
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How many Mars missions have been successful? - MindGods https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53589767 ====== simonblack About half. On those figures we can expect half of the current mission-modules flying to Mars to fail. We might get Perseverance to Mars perhaps, but its drone may not launch; and similar wi...
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Perl 7 Announced - kamaal https://www.facebook.com/theperlconference/posts/948010845621877 ====== datanut Non-facebook link: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629477](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629477)
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Paul Buchheit at Startup School 08. This talk continues to inspire me - bemmu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxP0i9ah8E ====== mdonahoe This is a good talk, though I enjoyed watching him talk about Friendfeed knowing now that it has been bought by Facebook. At around 17 minutes: "Everyone says 'We`re building someth...
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Show HN: Can I Wear Shorts Today? - rheotron http://shorts.today A real world application of some interesting ML concepts. You can check out the Git repo here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thatjpcsguy&#x2F;shorts ====== genevievepeters 21 and I can't Wear Shorts? ~~~ tempest12 Don't know about you, but that's p...
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Different Types Of Strings In JavaScript - oscar-the-horse http://www.horsesaysinternet.com/code/different-types-of-strings-in-javascript/ ====== sodelate they are the same
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Visualizing performance from the server logs - olegkikin http://olegkikin.com/performance/ ====== nlo Good approach. Any chance of your sharing the code used to generate these graphs from the %D-formatted Apache logs? ------ sarabob Prompted me to run a quick version over our weblogs. You rapidly end up with big bl...
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Ask HN: Next feature for prototyping tool - skaplun Hey Everyone!<p>I decided to write here and ask for your input because we’re conflicted on our next feature and what that means for the future of our product. We’re a small team working on www.ux-app.com, a browser based mock up and prototyping tool that uses regular...
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The Failure of Cambrian House - mattjung http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/12/when-crowdsourcing-fails-cambrian-house-headed-to-the-deadpool/ ====== Harkins I built (the first incarnation of) the TechCrunch job board in the summer of 2006. I started at Cambrian House a month later (worked there about 9 months) and t...
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Prototype ergonomic mechanical keyboards - obrajesse http://blog.fsck.com/2013/12/better-and-better-keyboards.html ====== unwind That was a very inspiring project, and read. Always impressive with people doing "all trades": from pure ergnomimcal to mechanical design, to keyboard driver firmware, to PCB design. Awesome...
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Ask HN: Accelerators – What pipeline management tools do you use? - ChrisPodlaski ====== inputcoffee Not in one myself but the most common pipeline management tool I've seen is a spreadsheet: either excel or google docs. I assume airtable like tools are becoming more common. ~~~ ChrisPodlaski It seems like that would...
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Realtime and Embedded Specification for Java, Version 2.0 [pdf] - pron https://www.aicas.com/cms/sites/default/files/rtsj_10.pdf ====== bcg1 "The RTSJ should recognize the importance of 'Write Once, Run Anywhere', but it should also recognize the difficulty of achieving WORA for realtime programs and not attempt to ...
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There Is No Policy Proposal More Progressive Than Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend - 2noame https://medium.com/basic-income/there-is-no-policy-proposal-more-progressive-than-andrew-yangs-freedom-dividend-72d3850a6245 ====== pmdulaney Paywall
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More Evidence Points to China as Source of Ozone-Depleting Gas - chablent https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/climate/china-ozone-cfcs.html ====== sjwright I hope nobody feels the urge to look at this issue through a nationalistic lens. Don't get me wrong, the Chinese government has a LOT to be ashamed about. But I don...
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The Prize in Economic Sciences 2016 [pdf] - dcgudeman https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2016/press.pdf ====== theoneone [sarcasm] it's a shame that Varoufakis didn't get it! It would beneficial for the world to know how to f __* up a whole country just because you have a fetich in dra...
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Pong clone in JavaScript - smanuel http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/58506395118/pong-clone-in-javascript ====== dajbelshaw Like this, you mean? [http://www.hackagame.org/](http://www.hackagame.org/)
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Imagining features for an ObjC 3.0 - lerno https://swiftopinions.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/objc-3-0-beyond-a-new-syntax/ ====== mcmatterson Exactly this. I'm holding off on Swift for as long as possible for many of the reasons that others have said better than I can (in a nutshell, it's got all of the bad parts of C+...
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Working on an "auction" site - Should I let an investor give me money? - noig3 I am working on something I call "reverse auctioning". Lame name I know but I cannot think of anything else that I could call it. I showed this to a couple of guys and they told me that they interested in giving me some money to work on t...
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HealthCare.gov for Developers - viclou https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/ ====== dang This post grossly broke the guidelines against editorializing titles. HN doesn't do "TIL".
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I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram - gumby https://medium.com/%40chrisbuetti/how-i-eat-for-free-in-nyc-using-python-automation-artificial-intelligence-and-instagram-a5ed8a1e2a10 ====== ColinWright Dupe. Submitted 13 days ago[0] with no discussion. Then submitted again[1] 20 hours ago, g...
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OS News Just wants to get hits and create a sensation - adigandhi This is regarding this article on the fromt page of HN yesterday. http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osnews.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;27416&#x2F;The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone<p>I would like to say really? I am engineer and die everyday, have ma...
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In One Year, Tumblr Goes From 1 Billion Posts To 10 Billion - eokuma http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/09/tumblr-10-billion/ ====== samstave I would like to see this compared to their pageviews/impressions
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The Google memo guy wants us all to acknowledge the “fun” parts of the KKK - abhi3 https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/20/16340168/google-memo-kkk-grand-wizard ====== gcatalfamo He clearly hasn’t the best way of making an argument. But the Vox author didn’t get his point at all. That said I would never ask him to s...
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Nexus S Revealed: This is the Android Phone You've Been Waiting For - iuguy http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/Nexus_S_confirmed_android_phone_youve_been_waiting_for.php ====== Estragon I don't know. I've kind of fallen in love with the hardware keyboard on my droid. Hard to imagine using android for the application...
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What I've Learned After 13 Years of Web Engineering - jonthepirate https://coderwall.com/p/izxoyw ====== rdtsc > My lack of a proper CS degree only haunts me during bullshit interviews as > many interviewers who do have a CS degree tend to focus on CS academic > topics rather than things a web developer would actual...
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Is it rude to be too early for an interview? - cwan http://blog.scsuscholars.com/2010/04/is-it-rude-to-be-too-early.html ====== bonsaitree Yes. It's actually rude to show up excessively early for ANY sort of social engagement and, despite the business context and objectives involved, an in- person interview IS a s...
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C database connection pool library - sovande http://tildeslash.com/libzdb/ ====== jrmg _Can I use libzdb in my iOS or Mac OS X app?_ _Yes[...]_ Except it's GPLed, so it can't be used in any closed-source apps, or any apps that you want to distribute on the App Store, without an explicit exception. If you're not ...
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OKRs aren't going to fix your communication issues - craigkerstiens http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/29/okrs-arent-going-to-fix-your-communication/ ====== Hackbraten A definition of the acronym OKR on first mention would have been useful. Literally never heard of it before.
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Objects and Collections in pure C like Java - run4apps https://github.com/josuemnb/SimpleC2.0 ====== JPLeRouzic I believe C++ was a preprocessor at the beginning, and I had long time ago a book in French explaining how to do OOP with standard C. This attempt provides probably as much I need of OOP, I always (since 199...
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Build Your Own X - hakanderyal https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x ====== commandlinefan I was expecting build your own XWindows Server. ~~~ _def I expected the same and was gladly surprised with this interesting collection. That being said, there's a link under "uncategorized" regarding the X window s...
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Ask HN: Do you donate to any charities? - trev0r If so, which organizations are your favorite and why? ====== AmberShah ASPCA and my local SPCA Nothing but nets I want to start with charity:water soon too. The "why" is that these causes touch my heart and the organizations are responsible. No pet deserves cruelty...
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America’s New Sex Bureaucracy - hooboy https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/291105/americas-new-sex-bureaucracy ====== RcouF1uZ4gsC >But after a lifetime in service of the feminist cause, she took on the case of a friend whose son she came to believe had been wrongly convicted of rape and won his acquitta...
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Con Man: A New Comedy from Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion - tamagokun https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/con-man ====== thret I'm kind of surprised they're not offering a 50k or 100k reward. Get in quick people, they're selling out. ------ yaddayadda "Because Convention Man doesn't sound as cool." :-)
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Drive (Courtesy of Marc Andreessen) - brett1211 http://timetogetstarted.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/happy-new-years-get-after-it/ ====== warwick Link to original post: <http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/12/drive.html>
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New AI algorithm summarizes text amazingly well - astdb https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607828/an-algorithm-summarizes-lengthy-text-surprisingly-well/ ====== bahjoite Some detail of the algo: [https://einstein.ai/research/your-tldr-by-an-ai-a- deep-reinf...](https://einstein.ai/research/your-tldr-by-an-ai-a-deep- r...
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Ask HN: Whats the Whiteboard Solution - donaldyc I&#x27;m going to develop a remote tutoring class room application which need a whiteboard.<p>I searched for a virtual whiteboard solution on the web, and found most of them are web based written in js. Whats more, most of them can only run on desktop, or android,or ios...
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Ask HN: Please review Twollars - eisokant Dear HN Members,<p>I've been here on HN for almost a year now and time and time again I see the most valuable comments come by on Ask HN Review posts. To be honest, they are by far my favorites.<p>I am very happy to now be posting my own. Last month my co-founder and I launc...
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Ask HN: $10k in cryptos stolen off my desktop from an encrypted folder, how? - kbenzle I kept 500 Ether, 1,000 Litecoin and 500 PPC (and a little btc) in cold wallets in a password protected .rar file on my desktop, when I happened to check my watch address yesterday all the balances were emptied two days ago. I made ...
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Why solve puzzle to get BTC, How about contribute to TOR - mko_io In the meanwhile in China, All the google&#x27;s service, has been banned by GFW(national firewall in China) for a about month, And even Dropbox is banned today. People in China live in a miserable live. someplace VPN is also not useable, all the deve...
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The Physics of the Railgun - ChrisAntaki http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-physics-of-the-railgun/ ====== madaxe_again Railguns are fun to build as a hobby project. All you need are a pair of rails, and a conductive slug. Ball bearings work well. The tricky bit is reducing arcing between the rails and the slug, as y...
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Interslavic Language - platform http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/introduction.html ====== strenholme As someone who has followed the constructed language and international auxiliary language community for a couple of decades, and as someone with an undergraduate degree in linguistics, I do not see a constructed langua...
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3 Reasons behind Alibaba's success - balainiceland http://startupiceland.com/2014/10/28/3-reasons-behind-alibabas-success/ ====== muyuu I haven't followed anything about the IPO, but if it was about their early success in China, it was all about: \- the rampant piracy and counterfeit market \- cheap novelty gadget...
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Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics - benbreen http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/science-misheard-lyrics-mondegreens ====== brianstorms Jon Carroll at SF Chronicle has written a lot about mondegreens both in the pages of the Chronicle and in topics on The WELL for years....
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Top YUI training videos for new developers - liqud http://www.wappworks.com/2012/02/24/top-yui-training-videos-for-new-developers/ ====== dalke You know, it's annoying to see people that post in order to promote their own web site. Rather, since "wappworks" all you've ever commented on, I assume you're connected wit...
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Platform Aware URL Shortener - different site for each device - chrismaddern http://trgt.us Send a user to a different website based on the device their using - distribute it in a short URL. ====== chrismaddern :)
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Comcast could mandate a monthly data cap on all customers in the next five years - perrylaj http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5718746/comcast-says-it-could-bring-data-caps-to-home-internet-service-for-all ====== nhilma I lived in Australia in the past where data cap is the norm. Even "unlimited" broadband plans mean...
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No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A. - 001sky http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/world/no-morsel-too-minuscule-for-all-consuming-nsa.html ====== spodek If our elected officials don't reign in the NSA and its peers while they can, they will find themselves the ones being governed. The NSA is supposed to s...
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Raytracer in Excel - pinche2 https://github.com/s0lly/Raytracer-In-Excel ====== CharlesDodgson Wow, that's some good excel wizardry!
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Show HN: ianal, a npm license checker - franciscop https://github.com/franciscop/ianal ====== eizch "'npm' is not in the npm registry" when trying to install it. ~~~ franciscop Because I was installing it from local I completely forgot to publish it, thanks for the tip! Published now ~~~ eizch Thanks I will try it ...
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The Real (and Hidden) Cost of Serverless Architecture - matthewhogan https://blog.twintech.io/2016/04/20/the-real-and-hidden-cost-of-serverless-architecture/ ====== stephenr Please stop calling them "server less" apps. An app that is developed as front end code only and relies 100% on an existing "platform" for hosti...
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Estimated $64M loss as SF street conditions and costs drive out Oracle OpenWorld - antoncohen https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oracle-openworld-las-vegas-convention-14898734.php ====== bahro Unlike what the headline suggests, and how I'm sure this will be spun, the main reason for this was cost. San Francisco ha...
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Ask HN: Anyone have experience with Parellel Python? - shaddi I found what seems to be an awesome Python parallelization library which gets around the GIL by using processes and IPC. The same mechanism lets it support distributing jobs to clusters across a local network or the Internet, with dynamic load balancing.<...
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Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016) - stefap2 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2015.1101478?journalCode=qjpd ====== crazygringo Completely true. And funny, because any actor who memorizes lines could tell you that. Seriously -- if you memorize lines in your apartment and you've got ...
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Ask HN: Where to buy Reverse DNS lookup database from? - xstartup ====== tony-allan You can look it up yourself, but watch out for CDN's and other third-party services and be aware that not every IP address has a reverse DNS entry. On MacOS: \--------------------------------------------- Note that the IP address byte...
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Ask HN: What's the best API documentation you've ever used? - mwetzler ====== gansai Java API documentation. <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/> ~~~ mwetzler the aesthetic certainly leaves something to be desired O_O ~~~ logn I guess it's just personal preference but Java has always been my favorite. I do...
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Google now shows JS documentation snippets in SERPs... from w3schools - raquo http://i.imgur.com/3QG0yji.png ====== aeykie DuckDuckGo shows something similar but using the MDN instead. ------ spleeder Fake. ~~~ raquo If you don't see the same, it doesn't mean it's fake. Google routinely tests new features on a sma...
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Sealed Rust Update - csomar https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-plan/ ====== xvilka I am surprised they didn't mention Iris[1] and RustBelt[2] projects. Iris works on creating the formalization framework based on separation logic and Coq. They have the Rust code model specifically[3]. [1] [https://iris-p...
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Pop culture unites us as Americans. Will streaming services change that? - Reedx https://www.vox.com/2019/11/8/20955451/disney-plus-apple-hbo-peacock-streaming-today-explained ====== Qwertystop Eh. US Pop culture was a lot more unified before Netflix (and especially before VCRs, and before the number of channels got s...
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Experiment on the effect of body-worn cameras on police use-of-force (2013) [pdf] - cmsefton http://www.policefoundation.org/sites/g/files/g798246/f/201303/The%20Effect%20of%20Body-Worn%20Cameras%20on%20Police%20Use-of-Force.pdf ====== harlanlewis There's a petition for officers to wear cameras on petitions.whitehouse...
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Statement on Mt. Gox - trendspotter http://antonopoulos.com/2014/02/25/statement-on-mt-gox/ ====== crystaln "Some exchanges were in fact completely unaffected, revealing as false Gox’s claims that this was a bug in bitcoin." This reveals a lack of objectivity here. There IS a bug in bitcoin. There are workarounds, ...
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Google Stock Goes Up +6.25% - ishener http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG ====== habbuman why? ~~~ leishulang because you can google why.
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Show HN: Slack-like discussion channels connect websites with mutual topics - DerKobe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkRhhtazZjM ====== DerKobe Full disclosure: I posted the app (back then version 1.0) on HN a few months ago. It haven't had much attention so I changed quite a bit about how it works (1.0: website base...
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Chrome passes IE in browser share - Mitt http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chrome-passes-IE-in-browser-share-1580620.html ====== harrywye Although this has been partly helped by MS's resistance to innovation (e.g., with regards to HTML5), Chrome's rise for the last few years has been truly amazing nonetheless. ...
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Ask HN: Can't find job, should I beg/employ empathy? - coralreef I taught myself iPhone development and the last few years have been shipping apps and making a living as an indie developer. I also did a 6-course certificate program at a local university (CS1 &amp; CS2, Unix, etc.). I&#x27;ve shipped millions of downlo...
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TiltFS: The user space file system based on Tilt - sh19910711 https://github.com/sh19910711/ruby-tilt-fs ====== sh19910711 short demo: [https://showterm.io/380e8ddab5c8c058fbd27#fast](https://showterm.io/380e8ddab5c8c058fbd27#fast)
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The New 95 (2017) - jeffreyrogers https://www.1517fund.com/post/the-new-95 ====== cs702 The authors make many valid points, but nonetheless, for me, this essay comes across as... _ideological_. Consider: The essay offers only criticism, making zero practical suggestions. The focus is exclusive on the Humanities; there...
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Making a Fortune Telling Machine (2016) - gisely http://lea.zone/blog/making-of-fortunes/ ====== Jun8 This was absolutely marvelous! Apart from it being the best wedding present ever, the write up is superb: generally with build projects the focus is on HW, however, the most intriguing aspect of this one was the desig...
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X to close - viclou https://medium.com/solve-for-x/x-to-close-417936dfc0dc ====== bhauer As an Atari ST user from 1985 to roughly 1993, I wasn't expecting the author would actually mention GEM/TOS. I was pleasantly surprised when I scrolled down and, lo, there it is. That said, since the "X" in this case is white on ...
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The Google Bubble - prakash http://www.blyon.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/02/the-google-bubble/ ====== haseman Keyword advertising isn't like the housing bubble at all. Housing prices were driven up by loose lending practices and very cheap/easy credit explicitly FOR housing. There is no such subsidy market for search...
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Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results - wbharding https://bill.harding.blog/2020/05/17/linux-touchpad-preliminary-project-funding-survey-results/ ====== eth0up Perhaps the only thing other than a certain leviathan that I loathe in Linux, is the touchpad. I have butchered laptops as a result of to...
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Python Cheat Sheet for Work - kusanagiblade http://www.build2master.com/technology/python-cheat-sheet-for-work ====== sago I was a bit bemused by this, sorry. eg. `(a += b) == a + b` is not true, a += b is not an expression. `str.is_digit()` doesn't 'check number', it checks if the string is entirely composed of uni...
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Interactively Explore 120M Flight Records with GPUs - tmostak http://www.mapd.com/blog/2016/04/21/flying-through-flights-data-with-mapd/ ====== mrdatabase The demo is nice. The other thing is that a mapd server with 8 nvidia k40s for 3000 dollars each costs around 30000 (with CPU and main memory). For 30000 you can al...
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Trump orders colleges to back free speech or lose funding - mudil https://apnews.com/7b50a833699d4ccbae38450fff9c1524 ====== Chazprime Colleges are already bound to uphold free speech by the First Amendment, so I’m a little unclear what distinguishes this. Having said that, I do think that today’s students are a bit ...
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Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US - peapod91 https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/825517729251684352 ====== paulsutter AirBNB might want to adjust their offer since the majority of the world population are not allowed in the US. Visas are limited by country and can be an arduo...
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Court says aquitted man must tell police if he is going to have sex - chippy http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/23/court-man-must-tell-police-if-he-is-going-to-have-sex ====== hiram112 Rape, along with paedophilia and drunken driving, has turned into the latest refer madness. Is it a problem? Yes, of course,...
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Google bans tethering app from Android Market - abennett http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/65504/google-bans-tethering-app-android-market A developer is reporting that Google has banned his tethering application from the Android Market, one of the first hints that the store may not be as open as Google has p...
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Ask HN: What does Apple's entry into mobile payments mean for Visa/MC? - dy Hey guys - just curious on what people think Apple's entry into the mobile payments space means for incumbents like Visa/MC (the networks), online payment portals like Paypal etc.<p>Does Apple have enough clout to change the landscape? Will...
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Lieutenant Uhura Is Boarding NASA's Airplane Observatory Today - ohjeez http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17340/lieutenant-uhura-is-boarding-nasas-telescope-plane-today/ ====== informatimago She was promoted commander in 2285! (And apocryphaly, even up to admiral in the 24th century!)
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Ask HN: What to do when your banks have negative interest rates? - quotz The country where I live in has its own currency, and has introduced a negative interest rate policy. Negative interest rates mean that the banks charge you money in order to deposit your money at the bank. A friend of mine told me that if I woul...
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Why Linux is not attracting young developers - r11t http://www.jfplayhouse.com/2010/04/why-linux-is-not-attracting-young.html ====== jrockway The author (and his commenters) have clearly never worked on any open source project. There is plenty of ego to be had for things like webcam drivers. Plus, if you have that web...
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Ask HN: Learning C++ or Python - pydox I am noob to programming. I don&#x27;t know much about computer science, or say nothing. What should I learn C++ or Python, and why? ====== kotrunga I guess it depends on what you want to do, and what your goals are. \- Are you going into a school, and want to do CS, and both of...
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Thinking Critically About Social Justice - ThomPete http://quillette.com/2018/02/17/thinking-critically-social-justice/ ====== stcredzero _There’s something missing from the social justice narrative though, demonstrated by the situation in Silicon Valley and those other fields I mentioned: it doesn’t take into account...
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Garmin Acquired Firstbeat Analytics - sradman https://www.firstbeat.com/en/news/firstbeat-technologies-renews-focus-on-corporate-wellness-and-sports-as-firstbeat-licensing-business-is-acquired-by-garmin/ ====== sradman Firstbeat Analytics provides algorithms to Garmin and other Smart/Fitness- Watch makers. For example...
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Evolution of the Transistor: Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain - rbanffy http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/04/03/transistor-shockley-bardeen-brattain-modern-electronics/id=79427/#.WPFXhgK9L0c.linkedin ====== ajross The article somewhat misrepresents the Lilienfeld transistor, IMHO. He was awarded a patent for a device that ...
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Doctored video of sinister Mark Zuckerberg puts Facebook to the test - kawera https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/11/deepfake-zuckerberg-instagram-facebook ====== hhmartin It's an interesting concept, but anything that would be effective has to be believable and appeal to a wide audience. I think people ca...
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Bach's Holy Dread - tintinnabula http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/bachs-holy-dread ====== anjc The depth of devotion evident in Bach's music would almost drive you towards being more religious. It's powerful. There's an _excellent_ site which I've looked at periodically for years which goes through every ...
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Concern About Global Warming Among Americans Spikes, Report Says - QuickToBan https://www.npr.org/2019/01/22/687487496/concern-about-global-warming-among-americans-spikes-report-says ====== throwaway5752 It is rapidly getting worse than expected, so that is a rational response: [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04...
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