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Show HN: API Testing for Developers - tadasv http://bluebook.run ====== tadasv Hi! I'm the author of bluebook. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this idea, and any suggestions or improvements you may have.
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Cambridge Analytica scrambles to halt Channel 4 exposé - foxh0und https://www.ft.com/content/7ed1572c-2aa4-11e8-a34a-7e7563b0b0f4 ====== neonate [http://archive.is/VfEuT](http://archive.is/VfEuT) [https://outline.com/gdN45D](https://outline.com/gdN45D) ~~~ chillidoor Thank you for this. ------ sabertoothed [https:/...
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Budget-Cutting Colleges Bid Some Languages Adieu - tokenadult http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/education/05languages.html ====== tokenadult Perhaps the opportunity for hackers here is providing language instruction at less expense than college major programs. ~~~ zdw Rosetta Stone anyone? Beyond the basics (what ...
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Information age tarot deck - blackobelisk http://nettarot.net ====== lelandbatey Gotta say, the dorito taco is awesome: [http://i.imgur.com/gzSyXlT.png](http://i.imgur.com/gzSyXlT.png)
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Show HN: I built a 2FA token from a Gameboy clone - afitnerd https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/08/30/build-one-time-password-token-for-mfa ====== pinewurst I could imagine doing it with a real Gameboy with persistent clock in the cartridge too. ~~~ afitnerd Love that idea. Although, the original Gameboy is a littl...
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Pop-up Fabrication of the Harvard Monolithic Bee - nealabq http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxSs1kGZQqc ====== nealabq Related links: <https://micro.seas.harvard.edu/media.html> [http://trvideo.technologyreview.com/services/player/bcpid263...](http://trvideo.technologyreview.com/services/player/bcpid263777539?bctid=...
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Show HN: Tet – A todo app that deletes your tasks at the end of the day - aswinmohanme http://tet.aswinmohan.me/ ====== roughfalls I once read a statement attributed to Steve Ballmer that every six months, he tears his todo list in half and throws the bottom half away. If anything far down that list was actually a pri...
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YouTube launches their iPhone app - kurtvarner http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/youtube-iphone-app-ads-exclamation-point/ ====== vpdn I started building ToddlerTube, a YouTube iPad app for kids. The first minimal version is almost finished. Is anyone with kids maybe interested in helping beta testing it? Some more ...
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I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop what you are doing - SirLJ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lfobc/i_am_a_timetraveler_from_the_future_here_to_beg/ ====== jraedisch I am slightly more pro Bitcoin, but it is still a great read.
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The growing importance of monopoly rents (2013) - bainsfather http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/opinion/krugman-profits-without-production.html ====== bainsfather There's also a meta-summary of this and related articles by others, here: [http://bruegel.org/2014/02/blogs-review-profits-without- inve...](http://bruegel....
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REST APIs must be hypertext-driven (2008) - dvaun https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven ====== dozzman Most of the APIs I use and build are best suited as RPC systems rather than hypermedia networks, so implementing the entire REST idea has never been immediately useful. Broadly the re...
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Ask HN: When does programming start to make sense? - amorphid How long did it take before you could write code on your own? Every time I try to learn programming, it feels painfully slow compared to other things I've picked up. Maybe I'm the opposite of a natural. I took C++ in college and studied Ruby &#38; PHP o...
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How the Medium Editor Works - tosh https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480 ====== adamtj > 3\. All visible edits should map onto an algebraically closed and complete > set of visible content. And suddenly I have a common-sense understanding of what the mathematical terms "closed" ...
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The myth of 'bulletproof' Linux - unstoppableted http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/analysts-linux-security-mystique-dangerous/144662 ====== nodata The article is correct: no system can be 100% secure, and adding an anti-virus layer helps. But the article specifically discusses desktop Linux and Ubuntu Linux in par...
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Show HN: get location from tweets - abava http://tl.linkstore.ru ====== vbm The background color of the page is irritating my eyes. May be it is happening only to me
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House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them - no_wizard https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-orders-pentagon-report-whether-weaponized-ticks ====== cascom Interesting that this might officially come out - it’s been an open secret for years [https://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-G...
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The Book Market Stares At Ubiquity - peter123 http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/the-book-market-stares-at-ubiquity.html ====== thorax Kindle makes me more excited for the next generation of ebook readers than it does for itself. When I use it, I think how amazing the next-gen readers are going to be. And the great part ...
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Microsoft shipped Python code in 1996 - znpy http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-ships-python-code-in-1996.html ====== teh_klev Repost here with discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12141311](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12141311)
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Google posts Windows 8.1 vulnerability after 90 days - mmorris http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/02/google-posts-unpatched-microsoft-bug/ ====== cheald This story is surprisingly hostile to Google. A 90-day window after which the bug is published is about as responsible as responsible disclosure gets. The headline reall...
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Genghis Khan's genetic legacy has competition - benbreen http://www.nature.com/news/genghis-khan-s-genetic-legacy-has-competition-1.16767 ====== slg Maybe I am missing something in the article, but how do they identify the "founders" of these Y-chromosome lineages? What distinguishes the founder from their father's ...
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Ask HN: Scale of 1-10, how much did you trust Cloudflare before and after ban? - dfps ====== dfps Just curious. Cloudflare published this a while ago: [https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily- stormer/](https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/) What is the temperature, though? Scale of...
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Show HN: ShelfLife, a social commerce platform for collectors - nickh http://www.shelflife.net/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=showcase_shelflife ====== eterm "Blocked, category games" I think perhaps it's matching on *lflife and making some assumptions? ~~~ nickh What's blocking you? A corpora...
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Rules of Logo Design - jwilliams http://www.tannersite.com/rules-of-logo-design/ ====== neilk Every successful design breaks at least one "rule". Because information is retained when it's distinct from the norm. Talent in design consists not in following rules but knowing when and how a rule can be broken. IBM's lo...
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Ask HN: Software pricing criteria for startups/freelancers? - asyazwan Can anyone share how do you price your software? As startup/freelancer the software will not be as popular compared to the big players out there, so high price may hurt. Likewise too low will starve you.<p>Is there an effective mechanism to price...
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Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011) - bradmwalker https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast-subtle-important-change-scrum ====== jryan49 I still think it ironic that when looking at the actual Agile manifesto at [http://agilemanifesto.org/](http://agilemanifesto.org/) (w...
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Quantum Computing Hardware Teardown - szczys https://hackaday.com/2018/01/22/quantum-computing-hardware-teardown/ ====== szczys I can definitely follow this article, but I still don't feel like I have an intuitive understanding at all the way I do with traditional processors that use plain old electron flow. It makes ...
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Ask HN: What domain registration and DNS service do you use? - dangayle I love using Digital Ocean and Heroku for my websites. Clean designs, straightforward navigation and functionality, affordable.<p>And then you have domain registrars like GoDaddy, Domain.com and others that are the exact opposite (except cheap)....
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The Reproduction of Privilege - pg http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/the-reproduction-of-privilege/?src=recg ====== rdl There are a lot of points in this (some of which seem bogus), but just to focus on one: "Higher education itself has polarized" -- relative growth in competitive, very competitive, a...
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/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know - activatedgeek https://hackernoon.com/usr-bin-time-not-the-command-you-think-you-know-34ac03e55cc3 ====== jimrandomh The reason 'time' is a builtin is because it can time a complete shell pipeline, not just a single command. If you type time foo |ba...
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Using “and” and “or” in Ruby - fogus http://avdi.org/devblog/2010/08/02/using-and-and-or-in-ruby/ ====== raganwald I use this a lot. I dislike side effects in the subject clause of an if statement, so I used to rewrite: if user = User.find(...) ... end as: ...
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Show HN: Convert walkthroughs to working programs - j-angnoe https://github.com/j-angnoe/code-walkthrough-compiler/ ====== zzo38computer I think Knuth did something similar before. TeX is written in WEB, which like that you can define many blocks and include them within other blocks, but it also has other features suc...
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Pixie Pi - jonnybgood http://stuarth.github.io/pixie/pixie-pi ====== therealmocker There doesn't seem to be a homebrew package for Pixie yet on OS X. I made a quick Brewfile ([http://brew.sh](http://brew.sh)) but was bitten by pixie needing to find its standard libraries in a specific location. I should look again be...
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Show HN: HackerNews for Social Entrepreneurs - dhruvkar http://news.socent.io ====== dhruvkar Currently using the very useful telescope app. Any feedback on design and user experience would be very helpful.
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Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years - john37386 https://www.zdnet.com/article/zero-day-in-popular-jquery-plugin-actively-exploited-for-at-least-three-years/ ====== lcashdol Larry Cashdollar here. I don’t blame the author either. None of the folks including my self knew .htaccess su...
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Portland Startup Weekend - jmorin007 http://startupweekend.com/portland-startup-weekend/ ====== olefoo Anybody here been to one of these dos? Is it worth doing? ~~~ timr Never been, but it sounds like exactly the wrong sort of environment for creativity and productivity. Too many people attend; the communication ove...
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T-Mobile kills the 1GB data cap, takes a more friendly approach - terpua http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/24/t-mobile-kills-the-1gb-data-cap-takes-a-more-friendly-approach/ ====== kqr2 They need to at least match AT&T's data plan in order to be competitive. For an unlocked i-phone, there is a $5.99 "t-zones hack" that...
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What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know - Reedx https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/03/what-would-happen-if-we-randomly-gave-poor-families-now-we-know/ ====== mymacbook Link to actual study: [http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/assets/miguel_research/88/G...](http://emiguel....
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Twitter is not a public utility - daveid https://medium.com/@Gargron/twitter-is-not-a-public-utility-2bc49567152b ====== messo Federation makes a lot of sense for a micro blogging service, as no community is the same. Allowing for different rules and styles of moderation without trapping users in silos / walled garden...
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Three Minutes to Midnight - masteryupa_ https://thedaleyreview.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/three-minutes-to-midnight/ ====== hourislate >Surely it is clear that if anything the build up of troops on the Russian border acts to position NATO in an overtly aggressive posture, regardless of any predilection for defensive con...
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India court blocks Bayer generic drug appeal - hemantv http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/generic-drug-makers-get-a-boost-from-sc-ruling/article6689370.ece ====== hemantv just to give some perspective Rs 8880 = 141.751 US Dollar Rs 284000 = 4533.486 US Dollar
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Self-Documented Makefile - fzaninotto http://marmelab.com/blog/2016/02/29/auto-documented-makefile.html ====== ArnaudRinquin As I used `make` more and more for our node projects, I missed the clean outputs `grunt` or `gulp` provide. To fix that, I created `make2tap`: [https://www.npmjs.com/package/make2tap](https://w...
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Kevin Spacey on the potential of Netflix to disrupt traditional TV [video] - wiremine http://www.businessinsider.com.au/everyone-in-the-tech-and-tv-industries-is-passing-around-this-speech-by-kevin-spacey-2013-8 ====== nrivadeneira Kevin Spacey clearly gets it. Rampant piracy is an indication of a failing business mod...
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Dumb Screenplay Robot - smacktoward https://dumbscreenplayrobot.wtf/ ====== duxup >A series about a group of U.S. veterans succeeding in life after stumbling upon a full zombie outbreak! This seems like it would be already a thing. >An erotic comedy smorgasbord of blackout gags inspired by goings on by the circumsta...
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German parliament votes to legalise gay marriage - rbanffy http://uk.businessinsider.com/german-bundestag-votes-for-gay-marriage-law-merkel-opposes-2017-6 ====== iMerNibor ..and right after voted to pass a law against free speech :) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40444354](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-4...
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Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community - ycmbntrthrwaway https://www.lede-project.org/ ====== ausjke A long time openwrt user here. What puzzles me the most is that, those who are forking openwrt are the the majority group of core developers for openwrt, so I don't know why they are leaving t...
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Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime - catwind7 https://www.linisnil.com/articles/scraping-roger-ebert-reviews-and-amazon/ ====== sonofgod If you need a more stateful version of requests: import requests session = requests.session() # now use...
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Chief Executive of Social Finance to Step Down - coloneltcb https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/technology/sofi-mike-cagney-sexual-harassment.html?_r=1&referer= ====== throwaway6497 Interesting that branding is not important/creatively skirted when negative news is involved. Doesn't come as a surprise. Wondering, if...
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Analytics at GitHub - janerik http://johnnunemaker.com/analytics-at-github/ ====== phunge Jay Kreps speaks the truth. His talk "Building LinkedIn's Real-time Data Pipeline" is along the same lines as the Log blogpost mentioned here and is also extremely informative. ------ fuziontech Fantastic read. Concise and solid...
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Pinterest, We Have a Problem - CMartucci http://whatblag.com/2012/03/07/pinterest-we-have-a-problem/ ====== OneBytePerGreen Pinterest has a market valuation of > 200 million dollars... 30%+ of its images are flickr images... ... 99%+ of which are "All Rights Reserved". How many ... page views, ... new subscribers...
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The Real Pirates Of Silicon Valley? - nickfrost http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/the-real-pirates-of-silicon-valley/ ====== Swizec As a foreigner wanting to come to Silicon Valley some day I feel this ship doesn't solve any of my problems. There is no need for physical proximity, at least not in the slave kind as is ...
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Did the CEO of Reddit Pierce Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? - mbgaxyz http://associatesmind.com/2016/11/24/did-the-ceo-of-reddit-pierce-section-230/ ====== mbgaxyz Summary: > Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has confessed to modifying the posts of some users > on the most visible Donald Trump-supporting “subr...
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Why usability is still a competitive differentiator - nithyad http://teamblog.supportbee.com/2011/03/18/why-usability-is-still-a-competitive-differentiator/ ====== tokenadult Usability (in the sense of a product not frustrating the user's intentions) will always be key to getting good word-of-mouth advertising. Frie...
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Audio: Robby Russell on zsh and the bash vs. zsh debate - adamstac http://thechangelog.com/episode-0-6-1-oh-my-zsh-with-robby-russell/?t=0h12m58s ====== adamstac This is an old podcast, but the content is not stale one bit. This is also one of our top podcasts (<http://thechangelog.com/podcast/>), so I thought I'd ...
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US Gov Requests Feedback on Open Access – ACM Gets it Wrong (Again) - drallison http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/us-gov-requests-feedback-on-open-access-acm-gets-it-wrong-again/ ====== lutorm What a golden quote: "How would U.S. voters react to a Senator claiming that a given piece of legislation (say, one red...
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The Fay Programming Language: Compile Haskell to JavaScript - djohnsonm http://fay-lang.org/ A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript. ====== drostie While I appreciate that they moved the site out to a dedicated URL, this is a duplicate of yesterday's HN submission: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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Coronavirus: Kodak pivots itself to become strategic drug maker - onetimemanytime https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53563601 ====== ggm Kodak always was in the chemistry business. Drugs are chemistry. Kodak is why we have 35mm and 70mm movie film: it's the production cycle sizes they could make when acetate was inven...
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Fixing the 949 problem with Fipes - tOkeshu http://monkeypatch.me/blog/fixing-the-949-problem-with-fipes.html ====== alexchamberlain Does `priv` stand for `private`? <https://github.com/tOkeshu/fipes/tree/master/fipes/priv/ssl> ~~~ tOkeshu Theses files are examples files. You can find the same in the cowboy_exampl...
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Fake Obama speech is the beginning of the end of video evidence - dctoedt https://boingboing.net/2017/07/17/fake-obama-speech-is-the-begin.html ====== glbrew Fortunately this will counteract a total lack of privacy caused by ubiquitous microscopic drones and cameras. You come forward with a celebrity/political/ceo sex...
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You can now mount SMB/CIFS on ChromeOS - ron0c https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YoichiroTanaka/posts/55Z5ojCPDQ4 ====== c0nsumer Specifically, SMB/CIFS, not just shares from Samba (a specific implementation of an SMB/CIFS server). ~~~ ron0c Yes, you are correct, title changed to reflect this. ------ tedchs Important n...
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Ab Initio ETL Tool - breck http://abinitio-interviews.weebly.com/ ====== rubyfan That might be the most I’ve ever seen written about Ab Initio in public. The company is notoriously private with documentation and even discussion boards. ~~~ breck Agreed. I couldn't find much about it. Looks quite smart though (not sur...
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Unorthodox Strategies for Winning (by Jason Shen) - lionhearted http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/unorthodox-strategies-for-winning ====== chegra I love seeing this, HN members teaming up. Let me add some strategies: "Dog Strategy" - Use timing to win. Certain times of the day or month or year goals are easily accom...
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GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO - CrankyBear https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/github-hires-former-bitnami-co-founder-erica-brescia-as-coo/ ====== dmor Erica is an incredible founder who worked on Bitnami/Bitrock for 14 years. I’m lucky enough to have invested in her at Demo Day, have her a...
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PhoneFactor acquired by Microsoft - marshray https://www.phonefactor.com/news/microsoft-acquires-phonefactor ====== marshray We'll be part of the Server and Tools Division, which includes things like Azure. Consider me your inside contact. (though I can't go making any promises yet :-)
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IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc - sama http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/live-from-apples-iphone-os-3-0-preview-event/#continued ====== ryanwaggoner _"Now as I said before, 3.0 brings a lot of new features for devs, but for customers as well... starting... with cut...
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RIP to the Perfectly-Sized iPhone - mrzool https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a23105271/iphone-se-perfect-size-discontinued/ ====== anoncoward111 My LG Zone 4 cost me $115, it's the perfect size and speed and weight. I used to run an iphone5. Long may it live! ~~~ Finnucane I still have my iPhone 5,...
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Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student - anaptdemise http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/bottled-water-purchase-leads-to-night-in-jail-for-uva/article_b5ab5f62-df9b-11e2-81c4-0019bb30f31a.html ====== dsl The ABC agents are obviously not correctly trained law enforcement officers. Even in "underc...
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What Is the Definition of a Seed Round or an a Round? - adidash http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/10/07/what-is-the-definition-of-a-seed-round-or-an-a-round/ ====== adidash Related content from Pando - [http://pando.com/2014/10/07/what-you-label-your- funding-roun...](http://pando.com/2014/10/07/what-you-label-y...
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It looks to me that Nintendo tried turning the SNES into a full blown 'computer' - easton https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/hxy4je/gigaleak_it_looks_to_me_that_nintendo_tried/ ====== mr-ron Great video that summarizes whats going on here. Seems like a big deal to a lot of people interested in this era of g...
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Someone Just Leaked Obama's Rules for Assassinating American Citizens - erichocean http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/04/someone-just-leaked-obamas-rules-for-ass ====== ghshephard For everybody commenting on this article, please take 45 minutes to read the document. It applies only to the following scenario: 1) The US Ci...
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Took me more than 2 years to get 200 paying customers for my Web App - barmstrong http://www.startbreakingfree.com/1640/universitytutor-races-past-200-paying-customers/ ====== user24 congrats! It's always inspiring to see people having success doing what they love. 200 users seems almost laughably smalltime compared t...
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Any good world calling options? - nphyte ====== ankitgarg43 I prefer Google Voice, from one place you can dial out to many countries. Also rates change accordingly. And the rates are very competitive against other service. ------ someone_new $10-$15 T-Mobile unlimited international calling #gooddeal
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70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement - dwynings http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/70000_blogs_shut_down_by_us_law_enforcement.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== joshwa If the hosting company says that they can't n...
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Firefox web browser - ericras https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id989804926 ====== po1nter duplicate of this: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553646](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553646) ~~~ ericras Thanks - I stumbled across it and submitted the itunes link hoping to find the discussion on h...
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Rate my startup: Feedlooks, a web-based RSS reader - arturadib Designed this out of my own frustration with current web-based RSS readers:<p>As a blogger, I was wondering why I was spending my time working on the blog design if most feed readers would strip off the visuals anyway.<p>All I needed was a web app that w...
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Facebook takes down ‘call to arms’ event after two shot dead in Kenosha - century19 https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/26/21402571/kenosha-guard-shooting-facebook-deplatforming-militia-violence ====== scohesc Crazy that the Verge doesn't do enough fact checking when writing their articles that they thought Jacob Blake wa...
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Los Angeles learns to love its river - ColinWright http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14690082 ====== ColinWright I wouldn't usually submit this sort of thing to HN, but I found it to be an intriguing read. I've also lived in a city where the original river on which it was founded had, and still has, completely...
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Competitive lockpicking growing in US popularity - robg http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/07/28/competitive_lockpicking_growing_in_us_popularity/?page=full ====== djacobs One of the more striking points of this article (for me) was not so much about lockpicking. It was this statement: "Some lockpickers obs...
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Asshole x software = Asshole at scale - hermitcrab http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/07/14/asshole-x-software-asshole-at-scale/ ====== dethtron5000 Another use case that the author doesn't go into is the proliferation of penetration/injection/other security attack scripts that allows people to throw a battery of co...
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Scientists 'may have crossed ethical line' in growing human brains - nnx https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/21/scientists-may-have-crossed-ethical-line-in-growing-human-brains ====== nsonha even a full brain is just a computer without memory, ethical what
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Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely - pwim http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/04/26/sony-shuts-down-playstation-network-indefinitely/ ====== wmf While it's true that Sony hasn't given a definite promise for when PSN will be back up, I don't think "indefinitely" gives an accurate impression — they'r...
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The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers seized - thornjm http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/the-hackers-hacked-main-anonymous-irc-servers-seized.ars ====== joshes The tl;dr of it all is that, according to at least one Anon, this "Ryan" fellow was a former moderator of the IRC and was the legal ow...
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Interview with Rob Pike on Concurrency/Parellelism (Video) - m0nastic http://www.infoq.com/interviews/pike-concurrency ====== m0nastic Oops, sorry, what I thought was a transcript was just links to that section of the video (updated the title to remove "with transcript") ~~~ tsuyoshi You can see the transcript by c...
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Ask HN: Should I use Docker? - hacknrk I am building an internal server for my company in Flask. As of now I have successfully deployed it to a Digital Ocean droplet, configured nginx and WSGI and got it running. Another developer is building a React app to interact with my server&#x27;s API which I think I will deplo...
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The best data visualisation I've ever seen - rudenoise http://brendandawes.posterous.com/the-best-data-visualisation-ive-ever-seen ====== TeMPOraL Great idea. Thanks for posting this! Reminds me of an advice my friend gave me once. I was writing a small game with a ball flying between planets in 2D space. Sometimes...
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The Super Productive Programmer - andrewtbham http://seriouslackofdirection.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-super-productive-programmer.html ====== lmm My experience is that we validate our assumptions when debugging far less than we should. Most of the time your assumption can be tested very trivially, while you can waste...
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Automattic trial data and employee retention - krogsgard http://www.poststat.us/automattic-trial-data-employee-retention/ ====== x0x0 I still think it's weird. 0 - they claim this can be done around a fulltime job, but some people in the thread disagree from experience. Plus, I have a very fulltime job, and particula...
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Show HN: StatusNotify monitors status of 250+ cloud services - kamizoo https://statusnotify.com/ ====== QuinnyPig Does this just scrape the AWS status page, or is it getting something that’s indicative of failure sooner?
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Ask HN:Kindle Popularity and the affect of physical books - pedalpete Has anybody else noticed the cost difference between physical books and kindle books on Amazon seems to have shrunk significantly?<p>As an example, Guy Kawasaki's book Enchangement is more expensive as an e-book than a physical book. http://www.a...
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Let's Talk TED Talks - johndbritton http://johndbritton.com/2011/10/27/lets-talk-ted-talks/ ====== johndbritton tl dr; TED Talks spark discussion, let's watch some together and discuss. The group will be facilitated by a program. ------ andrewmwatson Sounds like an awesome idea! A TedXViewingParty! ~~~ growdetroit...
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US Coast Guard won't see paychecks due to government shutdown - mariuolo https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/12/28/coast-guard-wont-see-paychecks-for-several-more-weeks-as-shutdown-continues/ ====== imroot What's interesting is that normally, USAA (and other banks that tend to cater to government...
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How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet" - alecco http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/how-the-robber-barons-hijacked-the-victorian-internet.ars/1 ====== nickpinkston Why is no one here mentioning plug-in laws? With proper governance (ie: laws) we can remove the market externality that exists i...
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Google fired engineer for breaking internal privacy policies - cristinacordova http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fired/ ====== thesethings I'm going to temporarily put aside what this guy did (which is really bad, but people with bad intent aren't common), to discuss what this tells us about Go...
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“Oh By” Is the Universal Shortener - rsync https://0x.co/index.html ====== smt88 Don't use this or any other URL shortener for any reason. It degrades online security[1], creates a bad UX, and breaks the web[2]. If you insist on using one, use one that is owned and maintained by a massive, stable company, like Google...
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AEZ: An Easy-to-Use Authenticated Encryption Scheme - mehrdada http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/aez/index.html ====== pbsd There aren't many comments here, so I'll take the liberty of adding a thing or two. This is a CAESAR submission by Rogaway and friends. It is essentially a construction that uses AES and tran...
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Federal judge puts limits on FBI use of “stingray” cell site simulators - declan https://plus.google.com/+DeclanMcCullagh/posts/3gc6o6B3Pex ====== Sniffnoy The actual requirements start on page 8. Here's my summary: > First, law enforcement officers must make reasonable efforts to minimize the > capture of signals em...
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Matchimals.fun – a puzzle card game built with boardgame.io and React (PWA) - chrisheninger https://www.matchimals.fun/ ====== chrisheninger This is a simple puzzle card game I built over the winter holidays for my nieces. I wanted to explore Google's boardgame.io state management library. It works best in landscape o...
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How to get a job as a web developer - charlieirish https://medium.com/kickstart-your-developer-career/how-to-get-a-job-as-a-web-developer-104127e0149d ====== bloggerden I'm noticing portfolios are much more important for dev jobs these days
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Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites (2010) - dsr12 https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100306/1649198451.shtml ====== citricsquid > If you're reading Techdirt, and the ads we serve are not good, you have > every right to use an ad blocker. It's your browser, do whatever you want > with it....
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Cloud just got easier - nlolks https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-makes-cloud-contract-more-customer-friendly-rivals-224556349--finance.html ====== bgrohman I think the title should be updated to match the article: "Amazon makes cloud contract more customer-friendly as rivals loom" This isn't about making anythin...
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Show HN: Sinkhole – A CLI tool to archive your files into AWS Glacier - lunarcave https://github.com/ncthis/sinkhole ====== brudgers Glacier as a first order archive reminded me of this discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921365](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921365) ~~~ lunarcave Yeah, that ...
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