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Pathod: A pathological HTTP daemon for testing and torturing client software - cesther http://cortesi.github.com/pathod/ ====== cortesi Drat - this story is just a tad premature. A brand new release of pathod will be out next week, including a publicly accessible pathod instance, pathoc (pathod's evil client-side eq...
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FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes - JumpCrisscross https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/hurricane-laura-fema-grants-aren-t-focused-on-climate-change ====== D13Fd In the abstract, this doesn't bother me. The potential attack surface for terrorism is huge, and there is a lot of poten...
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Networks give you an unfair access to success - aqeel http://www.gigpeppers.com/networks-give-you-an-unfair-access-to-success/ ====== mindcrime There's no question that networks help, although I guess you could quibble over whether it's "unfair" or not. But what comes up here on HN sometimes - and this is one place ...
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GM to hire 3,000 workers from HP - narad http://phys.org/news/2012-10-gm-hire-workers-hewlett-packard.html ====== gvb Cue one of my favorite Dilberts: <http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-02-22/>
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Ask HN: Should I learn Python? - ApplaudPumice And what about Rust? ====== orionblastar [https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python](https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python) [https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/python- prog...](https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/python- programming/46820274900...
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Worlds Most Expensive Burger: 1/4 million euros - jkuria http://www.economist.com/node/21548147 ====== gfodor Almost as important as the technology is the marketing. They need to get on message for this even at this early stage. Calling it "Artificial Meat" is already conceding the battle. It's not artificial, it's re...
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Preference for youth in tech recruiting (aka ageism) - Pyrrhuloxia https://twitter.com/mm/status/294179421462609920 ====== salgernon I had submitted a link to a story about this tweet: [http://brianshall.com/blog/does-morgan-missen-have-thing- rea...](http://brianshall.com/blog/does-morgan-missen-have-thing-really-...
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The Frightening Power of Ransomware Done Right - elorant http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/the-100-million-bot-heist ====== dmos62 I've recently learned that OpenZFS has effective counter-measures for ransomware and data corruption in general. Quote from here [0]: > As a copy-on-write file system, OpenZFS provides ...
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The Secret of Great Bread - Let Time Do the Work - phreeza http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/08mini.html ====== dminor I've used this technique and works great (article is from 2006). There's a video of it somewhere too, which is helpful for seeing how "wet" the dough is. If you want to make bread on a regular...
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“During the investigation we noticed that you placed a shell into our web root” - dogecoinbase https://hackerone.com/reports/136169 ====== benmcnelly His argument makes sense to me as to why that was needed, however if they want to take that stance, thats understandable, as is people being less likely to run things do...
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PLA Signals Intelligence & Cyber Reconnaissance Infrastructure - skygear http://project2049.net/documents/pla_third_department_sigint_cyber_stokes_lin_hsiao.pdf The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Signals Intelligence and Cyber Reconnaissance Infrastructure ====== mmaunder Anyone know about the idealogical leanings...
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BOSS – The Next Step in our Open Search Ecosystem - ajbatac http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/07/boss_the_next_s.html ====== malpern Hi, my name is Micah Alpern and I work with the Yahoo! BOSS team. If you have any questions about BOSS or ideas for how we can make it even better please feel free drop in ...
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If Elected, Barack Obama Would Name a Chief Technology Officer - jkush http://venturebeat.com/2007/11/13/exclusive-barack-obama-to-name-a-chief-technology-officer/ ====== kajecounterhack The government tends to...mess things up like this... Just saying. ~~~ jkush You're right, of course. What I DO like about this ...
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Ask PG : is company culture a priority from day one - lauremerlin 9 months into my startup project, I&#x27;ve been working on and off with quite a few (expert accountant, famous author, cartoonist, developer and web designer), all volunteers. I feel now I&#x27;d better wait and find a really fitting match for me (=d...
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Advancing Android Development with Kotlin - ingve https://realm.io/news/oredev-jake-wharton-kotlin-advancing-android-dev/ ====== on_and_off haha, how many times did he gave that talk already ? It is a worthy cause though, Kotlin is ridiculously better thought out than java (which is expected for a language release 20...
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Headphones and Coffee - zdw http://www.marco.org/2014/02/03/headphones-and-coffee ====== dognotdog What makes these headphones an order of magnitude more expensive than venerable work horses like the HD-25 ([http://en-de.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj- headphones-hd-25-1-ii](http://en-de.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj-headphone...
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Browser Detection without Javascript - e1ven http://documenta.rudolphina.org/cond-css-demo.xml ====== axod Why would you use this? And why would anyone disable javascript? Nothing makes sense anymore... ~~~ heyadayo Its not necessarily about disabling javascript... its that js is often a poor way of detecting brows...
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Carol Bartz: Yahoo "f---ed me over" - taylorbuley http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/08/carol-bartz-fired-yahoo/ ====== wccrawford Any (ex) CEO that doesn't know why they got fired by someone reading a lawyer's script obviously doesn't have a clue how things work. A firing of that magnitude has to go by th...
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Ask HN: What to do when the .com is too expensive? - hartator We have found a new name for our company, the .com is parked (I mean do you know any good .com that&#x27;s not?).<p>We have exchanged maybe 10 emails with the domain broker and he is asking us almost $20,000. We have make a proposal for $1,400 (Similar do...
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Google Self-Driving Car Project – Monthly Reports - alcubierredrive https://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/ ====== brudgers Past discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843539](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843539)
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Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations - patmcguire https://investor.yahoo.net/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-17-5897&CIK=1011006&soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma ====== riemannzeta For those confused, this filing is reporting a name change because the operating business (including its brand, dom...
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Angry iPhone Owners Twitition for Lower 3G S Upgrade Prices - transburgh http://mashable.com/2009/06/09/iphone-twitter-petitions/ ====== brk A) Online petitions are generally worthless B) Twitter and twit-[foo] words are becoming beyond fucking annoying C) This is no different than when Palm Treo's were hot and peop...
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Second Startup Syndrome - jayliew http://bhorowitz.com/2010/06/14/second-startup-syndrome/ ====== manderson2080 Jack Dorsey and Square, much?
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Fifty Developer Tools of 2018 - octosphere https://stackshare.io/posts/top-developer-tools-2018 ====== Pinbenterjamin Very bizarre... Just reviewing some of the categories and runners up; Application & Data Tool of the Year Javascript was pitted against frameworks made in Javascript? It was also judged against HTML5...
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Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (2013) - jbernardo95 http://semver.org/ ====== mmebane This appears to be from 2013: [https://github.com/mojombo/semver/commits/v2.0.0](https://github.com/mojombo/semver/commits/v2.0.0) ------ SimonPStevens I've been at so many companies where someone is pushing to adopt semantic versioning ...
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Mt. Gox's Bitcoins are being sold on Bitstamp? - Andrew_Quentin http://pastebin.com/c2qWB3nU ====== nwh Bear in mind that the connection between these addresses is tenuous at best. There's very little to suggest that the same person owns all of these transactions. The paths are fairly convoluted, it could be a norma...
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The kilogram standard is shrinking - binarymax http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/24/scientists-weigh-up-shrinking-kilogram ====== Jun8 Hmm, on a practical level, 50um loss may not be that bad :-) Take, plutonium, which was the most valuable substance I could think of, it's around $4K a gram (<http://www.cryst...
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U.S. warns Americans to leave Japan amid significant increase in Covid-19 cases - bookofjoe https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-in-japan-spread-draws-warning-us-embassy-americans-get-out-2020-04-03/ ====== ceejayoz And go where? Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
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David Heinemeier Hansson: 'Apple Has Approved Hey Without In-App Purchasing ' - MilnerRoute https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1275066259801923584 ====== MilnerRoute The tweet leads to a blog post that begins: _Late Friday night, on June 19th, Apple’s App Store Review Board surprised us by approving the pending bug fixe...
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Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible Online - sdomino https://www.wired.com/2017/02/famed-hacker-kevin-mitnick-shows-go-invisible-online/ ====== retox Shamed 0-day peddler Kevin Mitnick. [https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/shopping/absolute-zero- day-e...](https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/shopping/abso...
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Ask HN: Just how important is an attractive UI? - peacemaker I've been building a web application at home for a few months now and having a programmers design skills (i.e. none) means that while it works well, it doesn't look that great. The design itself is using the standard blueprint css grid, has a top nav bar a...
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What’s Next in Web Design? - kosofalla http://informationarchitects.jp/whats-next-in-web-design/ ====== erikstarck If the rumors surrounding the iSlate are correct we may see a new line of web sites that are touch optimized, multimedia intensive and built for leaned back browsing. In general, web sites not built fo...
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Soylent Update 1/21 - ph0rque http://blog.soylent.me/post/74091082214/soylent-update-1-21 ====== raybeorn Is Coeliac disease really that prevalent that they are worried about a gluten- free version of soylent? (I personally know one person with this condition but even he is annoyed about how everyone is going gluten-f...
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Streamus updated to be compliant with YouTube terms of service - captn3m0 https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/releases/tag/v0.177 ====== forgotpasswd3x When I opened Streamus today, I received this message: Hey everyone, Sean here. So, good news for people who love bad news. I've been working with You...
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If you could pick a superpower what would it be? - sfrj http://javing.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/if-you-could-pick-superpower-what-would.html ====== krapp I would have the superpower to pick superpowers. So basically I would be Rogue. Only not as attractive and a dude. ------ reiz Being able to read and control other ...
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Ask HN: list of domains for university emails - jmtame i'm trying to implement a way to restrict registration based on having a .edu account for specific schools, anyone know of a comprehensive list somewhere? i'm having no luck with my search ====== fgimenez Why don't you just check if the email ends with .edu? Ed...
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Italian universities hacked (Story in Italian) - jeisc http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/07/06/news/hacker_di_nuovo_all_attaco_stavolta_delle_univesit_italiane-18761507/ ====== jeisc Translated with Google: THE EVENT Extremely serious hacker attack at Italian universities Stolen sensitive data of thousands o...
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Tyndall F-22s, Left Behind Before Michael Hit, Possibly Damaged Beyond Repair - walrus01 http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2018/October%202018/Tyndall-F-22s-Left-Behind-Before-Michael-Hit-Possibly-Damaged-Beyond-Repair.aspx ====== sdrothrock I really love the statement from the colonel in charge of the base; i...
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Top Financial Mistakes Every Software Developer Should Avoid - debh http://www.acodersjourney.com/2016/04/top-10-financial-mistakes-every-software-developer-should-avoid/ ====== BerislavLopac I don't see why is this particularly relevant to software developers -- it's some good advice to anyone with relatively good in...
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Unpacking HP Firmware Updates - sobermanman https://jsof-tech.com/unpacking-hp-firmware-updates-part-1/ ====== rshnotsecure This article is bringing to light a lot of stuff that needs to be said about printers. Also somewhat depressingly, HP is definitely the most secure printing company. That's not a very high stand...
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Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance' - secfirstmd http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/275567-senate-intel-encryption-bill-mandates-technical-assistance ====== cant_kant "A long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee encryption bill would force companies to provide “technical assistance” to g...
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Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data from uBeam Patent Filings - szczys http://hackaday.com/2015/10/20/the-curious-case-of-ultrasonic-power-transfer/ ====== Someone [http://ubeam.com](http://ubeam.com): _" The most recent paper to investigate the safety of ultrasound was just published [...] Of note is ...
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Show HN: Birthkay – Celebrating every thousand days on earth - lopify https://birthkay.com ====== lopify Hi Hackers! Last new year's eve I tried to reflect on the year 2016that just passed by and I realized that nothing major did really happen, I was one year older but that's about it. I went to my photo library and...
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Show HN: Pimp My Tweets - suggests better words for your tweets. - jalada http://pimp-my-tweets.herokuapp.com/ ====== jalada This was a Friday project at work (<http://labs.newsint.co.uk>). It uses a couple of word of the day sources, thesaurus APIs and part of speech tagging. If you use a word that is a synonym for...
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Ask HN: Why do we capitalize letters? - jmtame can i stop capitalizing? ====== parenthesis We do actually capitalise a lot less than was done in the past. Find some unmodernised English writing from circa 1600, say, and you'll find lots of capitalisation of (non-proper) nouns, for example. The contemporary conventi...
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Show HN: Quod.us – Building an open database of misinformation - newman8r https://www.quod.us ====== newman8r I'm trying to validate this concept, so any feedback is greatly appreciated. My goal is to create a nonprofit organization and make everything free and open source. I have a small amount of experience in NLP...
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Show HN: A weekly newsletter curating great Wordpress guides - foundersgrid http://wpstack.io/ ====== coreymaass I tried to subscribe using the top form. It opened a new window, redirecting me back to the homepage, and I never got a confirmation email. I just tried again using the form at the bottom, and it seemed to ...
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Nvidia CEO Reveals New TITAN X at Stanford Deep Learning Meetup - bcaulfield https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/07/21/titan-x/ ====== cs702 Great news all-around for deep learning practitioners. Nvidia says memory bandwidth is "460GB/s," which will probably have the most impact on deep learning applications (lots of...
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Death by Cloud - How Amazon is Killing Open Source Software - Garbage http://www.keeneview.com/2011/04/death-by-cloud-how-amazon-is-killing.html ====== JoachimSchipper The author is essentially arguing that platform-as-a-service companies like Amazon reduce the need for e.g. MySQL support contracts. This is probabl...
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Mac OS X Portal Performace - manvsmachine http://www.anandtech.com/show/3726/quick-look-mac-os-x-portal-performance ====== zweben Their screenshot comparison is inaccurate. It didn't look right to me, so I duplicated their screenshot on my own Mac at 2560x1600. My Mac Portal screenshot matches their PC screenshot in...
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dot.dom: A feature-rich JavaScript template engine in 510 byes - icharala https://github.com/wavesoft/dot-dom ====== icharala I created a codepen where you can try it in action: [https://codepen.io/anon/pen/Kargex?editors=0010#0](https://codepen.io/anon/pen/Kargex?editors=0010#0) ------ hubert123 What is this syntax?...
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Packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out - Tomte http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/everything-about-learning/ ====== jbarrow Gwern wrote a good overview of spaced repetition and how to apply it [1]. If you're interested in going deeper, it serves as a good starting point as he prov...
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Google Street View logs WiFi networks, MAC addresses - ableal http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_streetview_logs_wlans/ ====== hesselink I'm guessing they do this to provide location on phones without GPS, or to improve it. Apple uses this as well on the iPhone (I think) and the iPod Touch. I think they ...
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Proposal for New RGI Emoji Sequences: Washing Hands - matthewmayer https://lemiwashmyhands.org/proposal ====== matthewmayer While a regular emoji could take years to get approved, vendors are free to implement ZWJ sequences. We've had some tentative interest from Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp already. ------ louise6...
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Show HN: First platform with stock and crypto trading in the same account - tgoldenberg https://www.commandiv.com ====== tgoldenberg After months of hard work, Commandiv is proud to announce that we’re the first platform to trade both stock and cryptocurrencies in the same account. With the growing interest in crypto...
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Andrew Warner’s 3 tips to giving interviews for founders and entrepreneurs - g0atbutt http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/22/andrew-warners-3-tips-to-giving-interviews-for-founders-and-entrepreneurs/ ====== g0atbutt Really great tips from Andrew. Andrew’s three key points in giving an interview: 1\. Practice – The ...
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Fastest internet in the world can download everything on Netflix in one second - rustoo https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/with-a-speed-of-178-tbps-fastest-internet-in-the-world-can-download-everything-on-netflix-in-one-second-71598083166098.html ====== refresher I assume the entire Netflix library is more than...
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Ask HN: Recommendations for affiliate programs (clothing/fashion industry) - n1c Hi everyone! I run dressed.so which I built for &#x2F;r&#x2F;malefashionadvice. Currently I&#x27;m using ShopSense&#x2F;ShopStyle (for the &#x27;shop this look&#x27; links on the post page and some other spots) and it&#x27;s going alrig...
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Murder detectives sought Amazon Echo data - sorokod http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38450658 ====== dbg31415 This is a dupe. This story was posted like 20 times in the last few days. Here are the most popular discussions... * Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case | Hacker News || [https://news.ycombinator.co...
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2.4 Kernel Releases Come to an End - Swifty http://lwn.net/Articles/491245/ ====== andyzweb should we have a funeral for it?
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Show HN: I built a fully ReactJS/Redux WPAPI theme - jackreichert https://www.jackreichert.com ====== jackreichert There is a link to the github repo in the footer of the site. Still a work in progress, but I was itching to go live with it. I look forward to your thoughts.
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Wikipedia Zero - _pius http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero ====== itcmcgrath I haven't looked at the details, but at initial glance - I love the direction. While Wikipedia my not be the shining-light of data accuracy, it definitely fits the bill for achieving good: "Perfect is the enemy of good" [1] I...
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Ask HN: What's your favorite embedded system? - timtrueman I'm looking for something rugged, capable of running Linux, and cheap if possible. I'm just curious what you guys have actually used and liked as I evaluate which one would work for me.<p>I've used this in the past but I'm curious what else is out there: htt...
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Show HN: Vulcand – Proxy for microservices and API - alexk https://github.com/mailgun/vulcand ====== alexk Hi All! I've built Vulcand to support Mailgun's micro services infrastructure. I think of it as Hystrix + Zuul embedded in the proxy. Let me know if you have any questions or comments! ------ chatmasta Very ni...
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Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention [pdf] - tim_sw http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03044.pdf ====== phreeza I have to say it is very entertaining to see all these innovations in the field coming in at this rapid pace. Its also great that most papers are there for everyone to read o...
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North American cloud IaaS providers benchmark [pdf] - alexkon http://cloudspectator.com/reports/2017-cloud-iaas-providers-benchmark-pdf-download.pdf ====== QuinnyPig I'm sure that 1&1's previous sponsorship of CloudSpectator reports in no way contributed to their multiple perfect scores. BRB, telling a CTO to move fr...
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Ask HN: Do you use kettlebells - epalmer I&#x27;m 64 and finding that I need a whole body experience at the gym. I have foot and ankle problems and can&#x27;t jog. I take a beta blocker so getting my heart rate up is hard.<p>I&#x27;ve just started doing kettlebells and think this might be the answer. But I only have...
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We need worms (Gut worms may be a cure) - ks https://aeon.co/essays/gut-worms-were-once-a-cause-of-disease-now-they-are-a-cure ====== zeristor An interesting idea, that we've come to understand the need for bacteria, fungueses, and virus in gut flora; next stage are gut worms.
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For 8 years a hacker operated an IoT botnet just to download Anime videos - deathgrips https://www.zdnet.com/article/for-8-years-a-hacker-operated-a-massive-iot-botnet-just-to-download-anime-videos/ ====== bediger4000 I'm skeptical of the "hobby project" designation. The botherder demonstrated decent operational secur...
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Longevity may lie in a gene called REST - dazosan https://massivesci.com/notes/longevity-gene-rest-mouse-worms-brain-tissue-genetics/ ====== abjKT26nO8 Or it may speak the truth in SOAP. ~~~ oriel RPC will never die
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Takeaways from the Leaked Files on China’s Mass Detention of Muslims - vincvinc https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-muslims-detention.html ====== wbraun I don't understand why the BDS movement against Israel gets so much attention when stuff like this, or worse, regularly occurs in China. I have been m...
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OSTIF, QuarksLab, and VeraCrypt E-mails Are Being Intercepted - y0ghur7_xxx https://ostif.org/ostif-quarklab-and-veracrypt-e-mails-are-being-intercepted/ ====== Kadin While their emails may well be getting intercepted, I find it somewhat implausible that a nation-state-level actor would go to all the work of intercept...
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Is $100,000 middle class in America? - smaili https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/25/is-100000-middle-class-in-america/ ====== DoodleBuggy Obviously depends where you are located, and how you define middle class. FWIW, this article offers a much better definition of middle class based on histo...
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Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee - sbisker http://technorati.com/women/article/missing-person-tracy-williams-technorati-employee/ I saw this on Twitter and thought perhaps the HN community could help. My heart goes out to her family and colleagues. ====== codedivine Technorati people, in case you ...
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Don't trust nice people in business - dumbfoundded https://www.atlassquats.com/post/don-t-trust-nice-people-in-business ====== soneca > _" Let's step back and define nice. A nice person is one who tries to get > you to like them"_ That's not my definition of nice, so I realized there was no point in reading the rest ...
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reredd: think you've reddit before? - aquateen http://reredd.com ====== run4yourlives This site makes me cry... reddit was so great in the past. ------ aquateen I can only get one mongrel instance running. Search also broke when I deployed. Working on these, but just wanted to get it out there... ------ iamwil acc...
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When Nginx becomes the bottleneck - wslh http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/when-nginx-becomes-the-bottleneck ====== snug So it was just a misconfigured NGINX setup?
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Having Trouble Getting Yourself To Write? Here are some tips - ColinWright http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2012/01/having-trouble-getting-yourself-to-write-xx-tips.html ====== mitchie_luna I like the tips of the author. If I may add, the writer should always have a pen/pencil and notebook on his sid...
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Fighting to Shut Out the Real India - mjfern http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/world/asia/07iht-letter07.html ====== ankeshk Here is a snapshot of India that is helpful to folks not living here. The 2011 census just came out. What is the literacy rate? 75% only. That means 25% Indians can't read or write. Thats 300 m...
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9 Timeless Business Virtues from a 19th Century Self-Made Millionaire - brucejaywallace http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/04/23/9-timeless-business-virtues-from-a-19th-century-self-made-millionaire/ ====== cynthiaherald Loved this quote: “Mind your own business; own your own business and run your own busi...
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Who Are The 5 People You Spend Time With? - philk10 http://leostartsup.com/2012/07/the-people-you-spend-time-with/ ====== stephengillie _‘You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.’ Jim Rohn_ I see it backwardsly - the 5 people you spend time with are the ones most like my average. I'm not w...
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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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Leading companies are trying to make powerful, low-cost Lidar - Tomte https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/the-ars-technica-guide-to-the-lidar-industry/ ====== derek_frome Tim is one of the best informed journalists on lidar - and this is a pretty solid summary of where the leading companies are (although Luminar cont...
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3. 2. 1. Contact. The Google Contacts API has landed - hwork http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/3-2-1-contact-api-has-landed.html ====== simianstyle On a side note, I used to love that magazine and was disappointed when they changed it to "Contact Kids". I think there was also a TV show. ~~~ wallflower > I ...
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Why Failure is Good - bemmu http://www.kimmosblog.com/2008/12/07/on-failure/ ====== jeeringmole "Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming (#101) <http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html>...
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Find Your Voice: Writing for a Webzine (1999) - panic http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/zine.html ====== pjc50 > The role of the audience is central in another context: MP3. MP3's explosive > growth is fueled by the appeal of free stuff, of course, but at a more basic > level it is fueled by musicians' fervent desir...
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SNAP: Stanford Network Analysis Project - indescions_2017 http://snap.stanford.edu/index.html ====== Topolomancer What I like most about this project is actually the repository of data sets. Curated graph data sets are hard to come, and the ones at SNAP have already been used in different publications, so there are fe...
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Voices of America - tintinnabula https://newrepublic.com/article/140976/voices-america-podcasts-stories-individual-obsession ====== slg >Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it’s a history l...
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The Release Windows Archaism - phaet0n http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/11/25/the-release-windows-archaism/ ====== qeorge The OP is begging the question. The Release Window never had anything to do with technology. Its has always been about money. Money is not an "analog era relic". Obviously the content producers ha...
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European Court of Justice blocks social network's anti-piracy filtering system - Tim-Boss http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17060112 ====== yread "The European Court appears to have ruled out the idea that operators of social network sites and ISPs can be forced - at their own expense - to impose blanket monitori...
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Amb: A Redex Tutorial - namin http://docs.racket-lang.org/redex/tutorial.html ====== akkartik Do we need to know _amb_ to read this tutorial? I have a vague memory of it, having worked through that chapter in On Lisp long ago, and yet the first screen introduces several terms without explaining them. It says I need...
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Show HN: Serve² says hello. A new way to share big files (coming soon). - dutchbrit http://blog.serve2.com/what-is-serve²/ ====== Daniel_Newby That link 404s for me. Clicky: <http://blog.serve2.com/> ~~~ dutchbrit That's odd - maybe due to the uppercase 2 in the URL - thanks for letting me know!!
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Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think - RachelF http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/why-luck-matters-more-than-you-might-think/476394/?single_page=true ====== epalmer > In an unexpected twist, we may even find that recognizing our luck increases > our good fortune. Social scientists have been stud...
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Ask HN: How do you manage business contacts? - jtfairbank I&#x27;m meeting a ton of people for different organizations, and I&#x27;m having trouble tracking relationships and TODOs between them. This applies to customers, as well as people in the entrepreneurship community and partner companies.<p>I want a contact ...
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Ask HN: How can I revert GitHub's new Gitlab-design? - autogenerated ====== amedvednikov [https://gitly.org](https://gitly.org) is going to have similar design, even simpler. It's written in V, so it's very light and fast. Open source release this week. ------ verdverm I'm migrating to gitlab
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Preventing Stack Overflow Attacks - AndreyKarpov http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/240001832 ====== opendomain Did anyone else read this title and assume that this was a way to make your website scalable to survive a deluge of visors from SatckOverflow.Com (or having a front page article on Hacker News) ? This actually ta...
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Homebrew core does not accept signed binaries - zabil https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/25316 ====== zabil The homebrew core team did not accept our pull request for installing from a signed binary or allow us to migrate to a custom tap. In the interest of security and user experience, we think it's impo...
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Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day - ttt_ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/isp-storing-25-petabytes-of-megaupload-data-costs-us-9000-a-day.ars?clicked=related_right ====== johngalt I've dealt with e-discovery sets. No one really has answers to what to do when you have a litiga...
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Android platform engineer on application architecture - EddieRingle https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FXCCYxepsDU ====== Benjamin_Dobell Unfortunately, the contents of this post are no surprise to any seasoned Android developer. It's very clear the Android engineers haven't given a lot of thought to ...
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That awkward moment when Gmail thought I was spamming myself - nathana http://www.brokenbitstream.com/gmail-spf-policy ====== anigbrowl Cached: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.brokenbitstream.com/gmail- spf-policy) TL;...
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