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Facebook Blog Post on New Messaging System: See the Messages that Matter - yarapavan https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=452288242130 ====== yarapavan All programs evolve until they can send email ... even Facebook. Oh, FB employees will use fb.com instead of facebook.com?
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Choice of Work - gnosis http://daniellefong.com/2008/06/26/the-choice-of-work/ ====== devmonk This was a neat post, but the word "leaderless" in the following statement should be removed. All large, successful efforts have leaders. If there is more than one effort, there are more than one leader: "I intend to help ...
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What does an unprocessed RAW file look like? - snailletters https://petapixel.com/2019/07/15/what-does-an-unprocessed-raw-file-look-like/ ====== arriu If you want to extract the actual raw data, dcraw doesn't really advertise the way to do it. Many of the options for extracting the data still apply some processing/con...
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What I learned from Steve Jobs - azharb http://azharb.tumblr.com/post/11923232684/jobs ====== arctangent I don't think anyone's opinion changed. It's just that it's socially conventional to try to speak well of the dead (at least for a while). Pointing out Jobs' flaws helps us remember that he was human too, and so ...
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May Your City Never Become San Francisco, New York or Seattle - drewrv https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/upshot/happy-new-year-may-your-city-never-become-san-francisco-new-york-or-seattle.html ====== ziont Worst of them all, Vancouver, with none of the economy present in other expensive cities. Fuck this miserable p...
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Burning out on Capistrano (Jamis Buck) - swombat http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano/msg/f5213577eaeadc47 ====== petercooper I recently had an e-mail from a Windows developer in the Ruby community who pointed out how opaque many Ruby projects are regarding Windows. He works on porting a number of libraries - s...
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KidnApp - An app that lets you create and schedule your own private kidnappings - ancarda http://getkidnapped.com/ ====== gee_totes I'm pretty sure this is fake because most arranged (consentual) kidnappings I've heard of have cost much more than $4.99/month. ~~~ mesozoic Maybe it's like a lottery where 1 member a ...
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Cherokee (High Performance Webserver) 1.0 is out - crad http://summit.cherokee-project.com/the-cherokee-web-server-release-1-0-is-officially-out/ ====== jonesy Cherokee should get more attention. Its gui config might put some hardcore users off at first, but it works well and Cherokee offers a lot of functionality i...
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Ask HN: Event-driven web development - abinoda Came across http://nitrogenproject.com/ and thought wow cool. What are other even-driven web development frameworks and what do you think of them? ====== jokull I hate the idea of tying front end to backend. Maybe it's prejudice.
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Ask HN: What lookup services do you use to ID a caller? - blueatlas As most of us are probably receiving a high number of scam, telemarketing, robocalls, what techniques or lookup services do you use to ID the caller? ====== PaulHoule I have used this one [https://www.everyoneapi.com/](https://www.everyoneapi.com/) ...
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Are statecharts the next big UI paradigm? - sktrdie https://www.slideshare.net/lmatteis/are-statecharts-the-next-big-ui-paradigm ====== majormajor My experience suggests no, because of two things: 1) Your user interface probably has more edge cases than you or your designer anticipated, and IME the most efficient, un...
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Is That iPad 2 Really Worth $2,000? - robg http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703696704576223242020954846.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read ====== WA The author might be right about toys like the iPad that aren't really necessary, but the trip to Bali for 5000$ feels way different at the age of 35 than 65 (that'...
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In Q1 2018, ICOs Stall as Crypto Falls - exotree https://news.crunchbase.com/news/q1-2018-icos-stall-crypto-falls/ ====== msie Is this article from the future? _The first quarter of 2018 brought startling losses to the crypto market. Bitcoin has, according to Coindesk, toppled from its $19,343 December 16, 2017 high...
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NASA just launched 8 satellites from a rocket dropped from a plane at 40,000ft - andrewflnr http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/nasa_orbital_atk_cygnss_launch/ ====== ucaetano Lifting a rocket that high before firing it carries another benefit besides the (small) altitude gain and lower fuel requirements due to dr...
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Facebook Newsfeed experiencing issues in various regions - izelnakri http://www.dignited.com/7488/facebook-newsfeed-experiencing-issues-various-regions/ ====== shankysingh Facing similar issues here in India too. Only able to comment on a friends status, who ironically wrote about this timeline-disruption. ------ o...
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Taking the Law Online: Judge.me’s plan to build the future of legal systems. - zader http://www.radicalsocialentreps.org/2012/05/taking-the-law-online-judge-mes-plan-to-build-the-future-of-legal-systems/ ====== ColinWright Much discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4015142> ~~~ improvisations Cool! This ...
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Zeroqode will usher us into a codeless future - levonterteryan https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/11/zeroqode-will-usher-us-into-a-codeless-future/ ====== swinto We need more references of successful commercial products being done without code for people to start noticing it. That's a great example of such a case. ~~~ le...
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Ask HN: I think I'm being stalked by a hacker. What should I do? - leavemealone I think someone who is very knowledgeable about security vulnerabilities might be stalking me. I don&#x27;t have any hard evidence, but we&#x27;ve been &quot;coincidentally&quot; running into each other a little too often in the past few w...
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Don't worry about Qt, The KDE Free Qt Foundation is here since 1998 - moondowner http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php ====== limmeau So if Nokia decides to abandon Qt, the KDE foundation may release Qt under BSD license instead of LGPL? Does that comfort anyone?
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'Very, very pink' tap water in Alberta town - chris_chan_ http://www.citynews.ca/2017/03/08/pink-tap-water-residents-alberta-town-tizzy/ ====== zzazzdsa A lot of the posts here seem to be missing something important: permanganate is an EXTREMELY vividly colored ion in solution. The bright colors of the water in the pi...
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Code-Pointer Integrity - jcr http://dslab.epfl.ch/proj/cpi/ ====== vezzy-fnord Ostensibly, "control flow hijack attacks" is a recently coined umbrella term for the various standard non-managed memory corruption vulnerabilities like buffer, heap overflows and uncontrolled format strings. The main target for so-called ...
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Fundamental Algorithms III - tu7001 http://lion137.blogspot.com/2019/02/fundamental-algorithms-iii.html ====== atoko I would appreciate better naming on the variables. Some of this is hard to read through with single letter names ~~~ derekp7 For me this really depends on the context. For example in a small for loop I...
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Apple Watch: $17,000 smartwatch is obsolete after latest update - ValentineC https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/apple-watch-update-latest-edition-watchos-5-expensive-out-of-date-obsolete-a8385291.html ====== forgottenpass Of course it is. $16k of the cost of that watch goes towards showing ...
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Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images - ghosh http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/12/Google-Cloud-Vision-API-changes-the-way-applications-understand-images.html?m=1 ====== pavornyoh On the front page - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10664554](https://news.ycombinator.co...
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Ask HN: How much money do you make from freelance client projects? - cod3boy I am trying to figure out how to price my new product. Can you please help by letting me know how much you make by doing freelance client projects on the side or full time?<p>I am building a freelancer platform on SaaS model instead of the % ...
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How Political Science Became Irrelevant - hhs https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Political-Science-Became/245777 ====== inflatableDodo "That increasing tendency to embrace methods and models for their own sake rather than because they can help us answer substantively important questions is, I believe, a misstep for...
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This 15 year old is making 500K a year in the babysitting business - riaface http://mashable.com/2015/02/26/babysitting-entrepreneur/ ====== jakobegger Impressive. This is a perfect example of how hard work alone doesn't make you rich; you also need a cut from other people's hard work to make lots of money. Pretty ama...
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EFF Supports Microsoft in Seeking to Make it Easier to Invalidate Patents - there https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/eff-supports-microsoft-seeking-make-it-easier ====== fendrak You know, I'm always impressed with the clarity that the EFF posts explain their situations and how they affect them/us. If every group ...
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Intuition for Bayes Theorem - phinance99 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fyudkowsky.net%2Frational%2Fbayes&ei=4ddPU_GVLsPMsQS104GYAw&usg=AFQjCNEgk7tlIdlNuASuzXh66BZLktkJOQ&sig2=AvNzwFTWfCH7Ac4SEymvTg&bvm=bv.64764171,d.cWc ====== abledon this is another les...
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Coinbase – Ethereum Sends Delayed - smaili https://status.coinbase.com/incidents/wvhcfrftmdlx ====== SCAQTony Thank you... I have Ethereum at Coinbase. Disturbing. Hopefully accounts were not hacked. This is the downside of digital currency: all transactions are final whether you instigated them or not. Would be nice ...
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5 Grammar Mistakes that Make You Sound Like a Chimp - TheElder http://www.copyblogger.com/grammar-chimpanzee/ ====== DanielStraight Half these things are common usage and basically considered proper by everyone who isn't a nazi. The others are so rare it isn't worth mentioning them. ------ jporter I recall a more int...
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Remote Kubernetes Development with Garden – The Best of Both Worlds - alexellisuk https://medium.com/garden-io/remote-kubernetes-development-with-garden-the-best-of-both-worlds-b60c7fab4f27 ====== mrkeen examples/garden/examples/demo-project$ garden deploy Deploy Error validating project (/g...
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Entropy as Disorder: History of a Misconception - Anon84 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5126822 ====== panic I was looking for more information on the oil/vinegar situation and found this explanation at [https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Bo...](https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/...
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Kali Linux 2.0 Released - kriro https://www.kali.org/releases/kali-linux-20-released/ ====== finnn Their site is down. Can someone post the magnet link? EDIT found the link on reddit: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:66fc47bf95d1aa5eca358f12c70af3ba5c7e8f9a&tr=udp://tracker.kali.org:6969/announce&tr=[http://tracker.kali.org:6969/...
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Making ISPs common carriers? Congress, the FCC, and public interest - FluidDjango http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/making-isps-common-carriers-just-a-simple-error-correction.ars ====== ShabbyDoo The critical issue to me is that my local government has granted a duopoly to my telephone and cable provid...
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How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment - adventured http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-23/how-berlin-s-futuristic-airport-became-a-6-billion-embarrassment ====== germanier They seem to completely miss the story about Imtech's involvement that broke this week which sheds some lights on t...
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Experts Share Top Blogging Tips for Beginners - ochyketa http://www.breatheweb.com/blogging-tips/ ====== smacktoward Step 1: Build a time machine and go back to 2006
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I quit social media, TV, movies, series, newspapers and video games - aliveornothing https://medium.com/@aliveornothing/i-took-a-step-away-from-modern-society-heres-what-happened-25d1c9b60c29 ====== aliveornothing if anyone has any questions ask away
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Ask HN: Who successfully transitioned from freelancing to product owner? - softwareqrafter How did you go from freelancing to building a profitable product? ====== muzani I did. It's probably the easiest transition. You just do it. You have the skills. You hear all the latest ideas. You sometimes end up in weeks long...
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Curated list of blog posts complaining about Go not being good - scarhill https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good ====== yomism When reading the list of problems from each article in that page it reminded me of the famous phrase by Rob Malda (Slashdot's creator) when the iPod launched: "No wireless. Less space than ...
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AWS Cloudfront DNS Issue with British Telecom (see 128-Lee-Armstrong) - sajal83 https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55db339fecbe400bf800143f/ ====== sajal83 Checkout result from "128-Lee-Armstrong" . BT DNS servers respond with NOERROR but dont include an answer.
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Endgame: how Australian preppers are bugging out and hunkering down - gpresot https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/29/end-game-how-australian-preppers-are-bugging-out-and-hunkering-down ====== radoslawc > Earlier this year the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved to two minutes to > midnight, as atomic scientists...
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Ask HN: Where can one turn for design help/critiques? - austenallred If you have a product design and you want some honest design critiques, is there a place to get those? ====== roh26it Dribbble and Behance have proved to be great networks. Forrst is being revived again so thats where. I've seen most people turn to...
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NVDIA fanboy murders AMD fan - rmason http://www.tweaktown.com/news/56324/russian-nvidia-fanboy-murders-amd-fan/index.html ====== superkuh Here's a mirror that works with javascript turned off: [http://archive.is/nE8xx](http://archive.is/nE8xx)
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Focus for Startup Ideas: White House Grand Challenge Request for Information - CoryOndrejka http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/grand-challenges-request-information ====== adrianscott Good resource sink for startup talent. ------ fnid2 _Responses to this RFI should be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern T...
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Arduino-Based Snail Mail Alert for Your Smartphone - vamsee http://hacknmod.com/hack/arduino-based-snail-mail-alert-for-your-smartphone ====== iwwr Great hack. You can also use this to make a pressure sensor for your doormat to warn you of intruders at night.
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China collecting Apple iCloud data - tchalla https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone ====== dmix China's surveillance is always so blatant and public, they don't bother trying to hide it like America (which is analogous to political corruption in bot...
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Ask HN: Would you still start a Medium.com publication today? - anon1094 I see popular publications like HackerNoon.com and freeCodeCamp.org actively moving away from Medium.com into their own platforms.<p>If you wanted to start a publication would you still recommend Medium? If not, what&#x27;s another option? ======...
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Paddy Power offering markets on video games tournaments - corin_ http://www.paddypower.com/bet/esports/electronic-sports-world-cup ====== corin_ For the record I do work for the company that Paddy Power hired for consultancy, but I'm 99.9% sure no-one on HN would look to bet on it, didn't submit for that reason. In...
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Why we shut down Achoo - casca http://blog.achoo.co/post/40100239754/closing-achoo-or-how-we-learned-that-its-all-about ====== alexro Looking just at the blog design I'd say the team has no clue of what people generally like. ------ laander I'm curious as to what Achoo actually did? What service did they provide? T...
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SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story - bergie http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/spacexs-big-fking-rocket-the-full-story.html ====== boznz Easy to understand summary from a BFF (Big F* Fanboy) Seriously it must be priceless for Elon to have people like this on board with his dream. Which fingers crossed becomes a ...
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User tracking without cookies, localstorage, etc. - ochronus http://ochronus.com/tracking-without-cookies/ ====== ronaldx An effective implementation that works as it says: thanks for demonstrating this. ~~~ ochronus Thanks for the kind words
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Packet Capturing MySQL with Rust - gbuehler http://www.agildata.com/packet-capturing-mysql-with-rust/ ====== burntsushi > Enter regex macros! While it is presently slower, and requires a Rust > nightly, it has the very appealing property that if your regex is not a > correct expression, your program won’t compile! To...
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Drone Pilot Fights for Right to Profit in the Unmanned Skies - 0cool http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/drones-at-a-crossroads/ ====== JshWright I've been exploring the idea of using a multirotor 'drone' to improve the situational awareness of the command and operations officers on the scene of events like hou...
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Stop losing your bash history: sudo chattr +a .bash_history - heyrhett ====== drv Since I had to look it up, I might as well share: chattr +a sets the "append only" attribute on a file
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45% discount on Practical Data Science with R - jmount http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2014/05/save-45-on-practical-data-science-with-r-expires-may-21-2013/ ====== jmount Just an explanation/apology, I did read the submission guidelines ( [http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](http://ycombinator.com/newsguideli...
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My Visual Resume - ajaimk http://www.ajaimk.com/blog/2009/7/3/my-visual-resume.html ====== seanstickle Ajai, I really like the idea of creating a resume based on the Toyota Production System A3 report (<http://www.coe.montana.edu/IE/faculty/sobek/A3/report.htm>). I'm not sure if that's what you meant to do, but the ...
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Facebook Reminds Publishers That It Is in Complete Control of Their Livelihood - exolymph http://babylonbee.com/news/facebook-sends-warm-reminder-publishers-complete-control-livelihood/ ====== Digory For some context, Babylon Bee is a satire site, best described as the Onion for Evangelicals. The publisher of the Bee...
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Freelancer.com acquires Warrior Forum - rajeemcariazo http://press.freelancer.com.s3.amazonaws.com/20140415%20Freelancer.com%20acquires%20Warrior%20Forum,%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20largest%20Internet%20marketing%20marketplace%20&%20community.pdf ====== DigitalSea Seems like a rather weird acquisition, but good on Wa...
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A podcast C++0x with scott Meyer - smallhands http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2010-04/episode-159-c0x-scott-meyers conversation with Scott Meyers about the upcoming C++0x standard. We talk a bit about the reasons for creating this new standard and then cover the most important new features, including support for con...
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Ask HN: Why am I still writing server-side code? - adamcharnock This may be a crazy question, but I'm getting an increasing feeling that every time I write a new web app, I am writing the same server-side code over and over again. On the other hand, the JavaScript-heavy client-side needs careful control to get the int...
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets (free book) - psawaya http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book.pdf ====== RobLach This covers quite a bit very thoroughly. Good to have in your collection.
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Google Exec Quit His Job To Work In China – And He's Been Totally Blown Away - ableal http://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-chinese-tech-industry-is-like-2014-1 ====== krob Very interesting, makes you wonder how much longer before this kind of world starts to majorly influence american culture & laws. Much of what...
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Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33 is in my opinion for the hackers in the world - Dcaptjack In my opinion ext4 is more secure and it is boring but I have faith in it... btrfs opens A WHOLE SYSTEM IF COMPROMISED...easily hacked.<p>Fedora would have been better to go ZFS and root it...YES?<p>I was a convert to Fedora until 33 R...
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World's biggest meat company linked to 'brutal massacre' in Amazon - vanusa https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/03/worlds-biggest-meat-company-linked-to-brutal-massacre-in-amazon ====== reificator Can we please change the title to "World's biggest meat company linked to 'brutal massacre' in Amazon rainfor...
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Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Agreement on Search - helloworld http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/technology/companies/30soft.html ====== oneplusone Here is the article for those that don't want to hunt down a login: Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo announced on Wednesday that they had agreed to collaborate on Internet s...
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Bitcoinica now the second largest Bitcoin trading platform - apsec112 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42680.0 ====== tptacek _You service is great, however, I am trying to withdrawal 246.00 USD and I am getting an Error._ _Not Good._ How is it that this guy's Bitcoin thingy has hit the front page of HN 3 ...
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How some animals use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate - NicoJuicy https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/09/25/how-some-animals-use-the-earths-magnetic-field-to-navigate ====== everdev If the magnetic field flipped 780k years ago [0] and animals do rely on it for survival (like migrations), wouldn...
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Quantum Satellite Links Extend More Than 1k Kilometers - samizdis https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/entangled-satellite ====== samizdis Research paper cited in article: Entanglement-based secure quantum cryptography over 1,120 kilometres - Nature [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-240...
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Spreadsheet of all TED talks - kirubakaran http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg&toomany=true ====== robotrout I was a little disturbed by this. Maybe this is common knowledge to everybody else, but I wasn't aware that I was exposing my gmail id by viewing a google spreadsheet. If you go to "s...
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New phone includes web, email, translator, coffee maker, and harmonica - TechStuff http://www.pomegranatephone.com It's bold, it's funny, it's not real, but I want one anyway. ====== ianbishop It should probably be noted that this is not a real phone but rather some sort of abstract promotion for Nova Scotia, Canada....
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Quick-sort with Hungarian folk dance - savinos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWBy6J5gz8 ====== ColinWright This and many similar videos have been discussed many times in the past. Here's a search to help you find them: [http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Asor...](http://www.hnsearch.com/search#req...
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Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop - netsmashers https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8LKJk ====== haberman What users actually depend on Linux's iron-clad promise to never break binary compatibility? It's curious to me that this issue is considered so sacred and yet I rarely...
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Critical vulnerability Pork Explosion cripples security on some Android phones - aroch http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/12/critical-vulnerability-pork-explosion-revealed-by-jcase-cripples-security-on-some-phones/ ====== Piskvorrr Yet another case of Binary Blobs Are Evil And Wrong. Now, I wonder what would happen...
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How Do I Create And Publish My First Ruby Gem? - mmayernick http://rubylearning.com/blog/how-do-i-create-and-publish-my-first-ruby-gem/ ====== nfm I'd highly recommend using `bundle gem #{your_gem_name}` to generate a template for a new gem. This will create sensible directory structures, stub out a gemspec, create ...
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An Explanation of Cricket (2009) - Bud https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm? ====== bmsleight_ You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, th...
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Show HN: Weekly curated security newsletter - dietervds https://securitynewsletter.co/ ====== dietervds I love curated newsletters as a primary source of information, but I couldn't find one about security news that I enjoyed, so I created this one. It's inspired heavily by newsletters like Saas Weekly, Devops Weekly ...
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Startups have a sexism problem - thejteam http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/25/technology/innovation/sexism-startup/index.html ====== setrofim_ Sad to see CNN give further validity to this non-story. Especially since it has already been established that there was no actual sexism involved. ------ acangiano It's as if th...
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Social Media Algorithm: Hacker News - start_dzh http://9.douban.com/site/entry/88439079/?from=mb-110571421 我发现 Hacker News 是因为 reddit 的缘故。Hacker News 所属的 Y Combinator 是 reddit 的种子投资公司,后来 reddit 卖给了 Condé Nast,两个团队都赚了一票。<p>Y Combinator 只关注于最早期的创业团队,在创业团队的起步阶段介入并提供相应的帮助。Y Combinator 会定期举行 Funding Application 的活动,接受创业团队...
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Deloitte Joins Adobe and Accenture in Dumping Performance Reviews - steffenmaier http://blog.impraise.com/360-feedback/deloitte-joins-adobe-and-accenture-in-dumping-performance-reviews-360-feedback ====== DaveWalk This is a corporate blog post. The title reads like a news headline, but the writing has a tint of market...
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HTML5 and DRM - Keverw http://kevinwhitman.com/2012/02/05/html5-and-drm/ ====== Chris_Newton A few observations, from someone whose business is making decisions about this stuff right now: 1\. It's easy for a consumer to say DRM is evil or to claim that it doesn't work anyway. It's a lot harder to literally bank on t...
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How Can I Take My Coding Skills from Intermediate to Expert? - JoHawth31 I started coding about 4 years ago but I feel like I&#x27;m in a bit of a rut lately. I understand the basic building blocks perfectly, but higher level concepts, for example, abstracting the database away through an interface layer so that we ma...
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Create a RESTful Services Using Slim PHP Framework - arunnallamayan http://https403.blogspot.com/2014/12/blog-post.html ====== kumararun www.9lessons.info
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Meet the husbands who fly first class – while their wives travel in economy - miloshadzic http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/husbands-who-always-fly-business-class-while-wives-travel-in-economy/ ====== Cypher avoid soft paywall
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Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (2011) - cpleppert http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/55284/is-lisp-still-useful-in-todays-world-which-version-is-most-used ====== mindstab Learning to program in lisp (specifically reading Practical Common Lisp [<http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/]>) has made me a bett...
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Facebowl - daveambrose http://facebowl.us/index.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d4dc8a6fe933de3%2C0 ====== nbd Very nice. I have to ask, though, aren't you concerned at all about the NFL taking issue with this? They're pretty agressive at policing their trademarks. Using the term "Super Bowl" and images of the teams' hel...
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Ask HN: Why calling C in mainstream scripting languages is not so simple? - gorer This is how Newlisp http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newlisp.org imports and calls C printf function from libc library.<p><pre><code> (set &#x27;library &quot;&#x2F;usr&#x2F;lib&#x2F;libc-2.24.so&quot;) (import library &quot;printf&quot;) (pri...
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SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA - antoviaque http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sopa-supporting_news_outlets_arent_covering_sopa_s.php ====== walru This is why we're left with a 'Vocal Minority' as Lamar Smith stated when pressed about the opposition. What he should have called us was the 'consciou...
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3 reasons why tech valuations aren't as outrageous as some think - ibsathish http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/?p=15768&preview=true ====== stormqloud Funny how there is no disclaimer that the writer stands to benefit by saying that. ""Scott Kupor is the managing partner and chief operating officer at Andreesse...
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Don’t Hire Anyone Over 30: Ageism in Silicon Valley - majc2 http://anewdomain.net/2014/12/11/dont-hire-anyone-30-ageism-silicon-valley/ ====== jqm I'm 43. This article hit a very strong point. I remember being told point blank at 32 (by a boomer company owner) that even though I was doing the job and had the capabili...
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End the DRY obsession - paulsilver http://joelabrahamsson.com/entry/the-dry-obsession ====== div "I also remember being taught that a good way to ensure DRYness was to use inheritance..." DRY has nothing to do with inheritance per se. Sure you get some functionality for free when extending something, but that's more ...
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Swift's Abstract Syntax Tree - aciid http://ankit.im/swift/2016/02/29/swift-abstract-syntax-tree/ ====== yjgyhj After learning lisp, I just feel like every other language is a weird set of macros. Looking at this AST confirms that. Wish I could live the rest of my life in Sexp-land. ~~~ chriswarbo Seeing this "dump ...
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Draw Something: 5 week old app with 20 million downloads - wr1472 http://www.businessinsider.com/omg-5-week-old-app-draw-something-hits-20-million-downloads-and-generates-6-figures-per-day-2012-3 ====== ashconway Wow. Staggering results. Fantastic news for the team.
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Applying a Social Computing Strategy to the Entire Product Lifecycle - nreece http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/09/12/web-strategy-advanced-applying-a-social-computing-strategy-to-the-entire-product-lifecycle/ ====== dappelbaum Read this if you geek on geeking out about socialness.
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List of Paradoxes - peter_d_sherman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes ====== peter_d_sherman Here be dragons...
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Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back - SQL2219 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602869/manufacturing-jobs-arent-coming-back/ ====== a2tech Yup. This is what I was just arguing with my family about-they voted Trump because they want manufacturing jobs back. I pointed out that if the US imposes trade tariff's high en...
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The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerful telescope in history - bart42_0 http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/17/the-square-kilometre-array-radio-silence-in-western-australia-for-most-powerful-telescope-in-history ====== naich Some of the prototype designs for the aerials are currently bein...
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Could new Israeli research allow humans to choose their children's sex? - Vaslo https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Could-new-Israeli-research-allow-humans-to-choose-their-childrens-sex-594249 ====== danschumann Would dairy people make heffers only?
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What are the implications of a company Not having a strongly defined culture? - rocskipper Culture in the Silicon Valley treatment of how to build a company is considered important from an early stage. The media has reported how companies have failed to address toxic cultures from early stages and how that toxicity ca...
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Reddit users now say “search” more than “Google” - mwc https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/?keyword=google.search&start=20071015&end=20150831&smoothing=30 ====== randycupertino Yeah but how often do they say Bing? Probably mostly only in the porn threads.
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