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Top journalists, tech, and government officials among hacked Twitter accounts - zlatanmenkovic http://pandodaily.com/2013/02/04/top-journalists-tech-influencers-and-government-officials-among-hacked-twitter-accounts-says-peerreach/ ====== bjorn_alm You would think your psw was safe with Twitter, I guess not. ------...
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Will Developers Ante Up for a Gambling API? - coloneltcb http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/07/09/will-developers-ante-up-for-a-gambling-api/ ====== daeken > According to Betable’s Griffin, social games average $1 of monthly revenue > per user. Existing gambling games, which Griffin says are mostly boring, > avera...
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Goats on Acid (2002) - tintinnabula http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/8/goatsonacid.php ====== justsaysmthng > ... after administration of 15 micrograms of LSD per kilogram of body > weight. That's a huge amount. 15ug/kg would equate to 1200 ug for a 80kg human, which is a lot. That goat was tripping balls, no w...
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SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (2018) - stefanu https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4 ====== ksaj Looking back, I'm surprised at how well SimCity performed on an XT (monochrome and only one screen at a time). Once the 286 came out, though, things _fl...
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Diaspora's opportunity: Model real life instead of SQL tables - mortenjorck http://interuserface.net/2010/05/how-diaspora-can-succeed-model-real-life/ ====== philschwartz It's not as simple as building around social environments such as work or school. Because there may be overlaps between all the environments, and ...
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Toppcloud and Django - rmanocha http://blog.ianbicking.org/2010/02/05/toppcloud-and-django/ ====== cmcavoy ian bicking is a really smart dude. i want him to live in my pocket, so that when i have a python question, I can just shout it into my pocket. ------ Barnabas I really really hope that toppcloud takes off. I st...
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Report: Russians Hacked White House - kirubakaran http://www.newsweek.com/report-russians-hacked-white-house-320522 ====== DigitalSea Interesting. How interesting that this happens right after Obama signs a couple of controversial cyber-crime/hacking executive orders, Russia apparently hacks the White House (if you ...
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Ottawa vows to cut wait times for foreign workers joining tech firms - drpgq http://www.theglobeandmail.com//report-on-business/ottawa-vows-to-cut-wait-times-for-foreign-workers-joining-tech-firms/article30458187/?cmpid=rss1&click=sf_globe ====== spitfire How about just making Canada competitive so Canadians want to s...
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Ask HN: What are good writing tips for software developers? - soneca I am thinking about all the occasions a developer writes words related to writing code. Pull requests descriptions, email communication with colleagues (devs and non-devs), commit messages, specifications, documentation.<p>Eventually a technical arti...
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Man found guilty of using phone while driving even though device was dead - pmalynin https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/10/man-found-guilty-of-using-phone-while-driving-even-though-device-was-dead ====== elmerfud This is what happens when new laws are made to invent new crimes. Driving while being distracted i...
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How Gordon Moore Invented the Talent Economy (and Changed The World) - jason_shah http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/19/how-gordon-moore-invented-the-talent-economy-and-changed-the-world/ ====== jason_shah The article claims that Fairchild Semiconductor was the first venture backed startup and describes the "fundamental sh...
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Farse, an iOS Client / Parse.com Service Clone Using Apache Solr and Obj C - kramden https://github.com/ralph-e-boy/farse ====== kramden I made this proof of concept clone of Parse.com / iOS sdk client thinking that I could run Solr on ec2 and not have to deal with parse.com and maybe have some more flexibility. It ...
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What tiny computer without screen nor keyboard to choose for a cyclist? - sam_lowry_ I am cycling to work, and I&#x27;d like to bring my computer with me, but I do not need the screen nor the keyboard, as they are available on-site.<p>I was thinking of odroid-c2 or something similar, but mali video driver is horrendou...
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Sub-$500 47-inch smart TV runs Android - deviceguru http://linuxgizmos.com/490-dollar-47-inch-smart-tv-runs-android/ ====== vladimirralev Miracast and Airplay built-in. Hope this makes it to UK soon.
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Chrome new tab console message – SW registered, what is it? - jpatel3 Today one of my colleague pointed that when you open the new tab on Chrome and check the console, there is message - SW registered (newtab?ie=UTF-8:8)<p>What is it about? ====== gerardes I think, it has something to do with Service Workers. To see ...
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Concord, our GPL outliner - tjr http://scripting.com/2013/09/16/concordOurGplOutliner ====== AaronFriel GPL? How does this interact (legally) with other running JavaScript? Do I have to make the rest of my site's JavaScript "GPL" as a result? I'm curious, does the dynamic nature of JavaScript make browser-based GPL J...
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Partner - mades Hey Guys<p>I am looking for a partner who acknowledges api programming. The idéa is on paper, simple, fun and ready to go. I am based in Sweden, Stockholm. Please contact me for more information at:<p>contactmetodayornow@gmail.com<p>Cheers ====== mbenjaminsmith If it's that simple I'd suggest coding...
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Ask The VC - What are typical compensation numbers? - jkopelman http://www.askthevc.com/2007/06/what_are_typical_compensation.php ====== jaggederest There is something kinda funny about the numbers. I would expect to see more like 30-30-30 for founders, with 10 options pool. Maybe these are post- dilution numbers. ~~...
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TechCrunch is Clueless - Oracle's SVP. - parth16 https://blogs.oracle.com/TheInnovationAdvantage/entry/techcrunch_is_clueless_about_oracle ====== ianstallings This is just following a growing trend of bad tech journalism. I'm no fan of Oracle, because of their past practices, but the least TechCrunch can do is ask t...
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EdgeML: Algorithms for edge devices - msolujic https://github.com/Microsoft/EdgeML ====== eggy Edge devices are what MS is calling IOT devices on cloud networks, I think: [https://blogs.microsoft.com/iot/2017/05/10/microsoft- azure-i...](https://blogs.microsoft.com/iot/2017/05/10/microsoft-azure-iot- edge-extending-c...
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Arduino-driven orchestra plays TSO: Wizards in Winter (and scanners, floppies..) - jweather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhChYJzw4FM ====== jweather I made this! Technical background and build log is here: [http://hackaday.io/project/3533-christmas- orchestra](http://hackaday.io/project/3533-christmas-orchestra) I...
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Titan in Depth: Security in Plaintext - wglb https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/titan-in-depth-security-in-plaintext ====== BooneJS This article is from 2017. Take a look at what is happening in open source with OpenTitan. [https://opentitan.org/](https://opentitan.org/) ~~~ wglb Cool, thanks. ------ thinklo...
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Ask HN: Are you looking to fund startups? - ryanwaggoner http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE5TQmVWaS1ERWJNWHctOWNXbTNHY1E6MA ====== e1ven This seems very similar to the Venture hacks Angel List, which has recently relaunched. <http://venturehacks.com/angellist> Several angels have tweeted about the ...
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Ask HN: Intern staying on with company, is Salary Negotiation Appropriate? - cartogram I've been extremely lucky to secure a paid summer internship this summer fresh out of my freshman year of college in a very exciting technical field.<p>I've been doing penetration testing and tool development for a startup informa...
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Ask HN: Great programmers and computer scientists of today? - playing_colours Who do you consider the best programmers &#x2F; computer scientists of today? Or, in other words, if you are familiar with Coders At Work [1], what names would you suggest for a new edition of the book?<p>[1] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codersat...
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They Live, We Sleep - blakeja http://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/they_live_we_sleep_a_dictatorship_disguised_as_a_democracy ====== mirimir > I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of > bubblegum. John Nada, walking into a bank, with a 12-ga pump s...
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Ask HN: How can you sell to people you don’t like? - dilemma1839 Hi guys. I’m a working guy with a young family. I need to get a side project started to bring in some more income to the house as we’re only just managing at the moment. I have an idea for a SaaS which I have the skills to build and market but I’m at a c...
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Ask HN: What does canonical have not reinvented - lothiraldan Internal discussion that leads to this question, What does canonical have not reinvented?<p>So far: - Graphical environment with Unity. - Graphical server, Mir. - Init system, Upstart but abandoned if I remember. - DVCS, Bazaar. - DVCS hosting, launchpad.<...
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In order to collaborate, is it important to be close to each other? - MEHOM ====== e1ven I've found that for the design phase of projects, it's VITAL to be in the same room. There are tools to replicate so many things- You can use phone calls, and shared whiteboards.. But they are half-way measures- They don't let y...
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Identi.ca conversion to pump.io: Fail - kseistrup http://koldfront.dk/archive/2013/07/13-162144.html ====== kseistrup I also used OpenID for identi.ca but had an email address associated with my account. However identi.ca says it doesn't recognize my username and it won't let me register [the old username or a new o...
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Colonizing the Internet - lenkendall https://medium.com/how-to-use-the-internet/8c548a28ad4e ====== evv These internet-governments already exist, but we hardly think about them as governments because they are built upon our national governments. Companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all count. I am lo...
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Show HN: Joyvite – Referral Program for Your SaaS - ganis https://joyvite.com/ ====== ganis Hi everyone, I'm co-founder / CEO of Joyvite. Joyvite is basically referral program as a service. I’m happy to have any feedback you may have! Thank you! ~~~ tixocloud Hey Ganis. I reckon there must be a typo in your header "...
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“I must, sadly, withdraw my endorsement of Yubikey 4 devices” - v4n4d1s https://plus.google.com/+KonstantinRyabitsev/posts/4a7RNxtt7vy ====== OJFord From the Github issue [0]: > Further hostility against the company or our users will > not be tolerated in this forum, and will be met with ...
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TPP Explained - signa11 http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/ ====== tptacek This comic is awful, and appears misinformed about fundamental aspects of TPP, like, who the participants actually are (it repeatedly invokes China, who is not a party to TPP). ------ samstave [http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3b2a...
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Chuck Moore on the Lost Art of Keeping It Simple - gruseom http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/chuck-moore-on-the-lost-art-of-keeping-it-simple/ ====== penguat I find this interesting: "Second, it’s irresistible to anticipate the future and expect the problem to grow in a certain direction. Thus cod...
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Ask HN: Best big group [board] games - RevRal Hello,<p>Partner and I recently decided to get married, and that the wedding will simply be a large group game and a non-ceremonial &quot;Signing of the Documents&quot;. Most of our friends are geeks and board-gamers, so complexity is a plus. I&#x27;m having a hard time fi...
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Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really Is One - evo_9 http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/28/460705645/gene-editing-tool-hailed-as-a-breakthrough-and-it-really-is-one ====== reasonattlm Something to consider: it is now technically possible and within the grasp of hundreds of clinics wor...
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Ask HN: How do you deal with bugs in software you sell? - drc0 Legally, how do you deal with bugs that soon or later will appear in your product that you sell to clients and&#x2F;or is commissioned by them?<p>Is there some way to tell the client,the software will have bug but still convincing them to buy your software...
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Passing On: 100 years ago, the last passenger pigeon died - lelf http://thesmartset.com/article/article09171401.aspx ====== spullara It was once the most abundant bird in North America, comprising 1/4 of all birds: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon) It ap...
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The realities of 'owning' a Japanese convenience store - Ultramanoid https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/27/national/behind-scenes-24-7-service-realities-owning-japanese-convenience-store/ ====== CydeWeys I was just in Japan two weeks ago, and convenience stores were omnipresent. I'll admit, it was incredibly co...
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Tweet Roulette feature helps Twitter users with common interests break the ice - symptic We posted FriendFury on HN a few days ago and there seemed to be interest in the project, but we noticed users weren't interacting much. The original version only let users choose a few topics they care about and then we showed ...
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Google now scraping GMail for your Amazon purchases - burningion https://twitter.com/burningion/status/628730345584766976 ====== Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 This is not a new thing: their Inbox app automatically picks up my amazon purchases and tracks its progress. The items show up with a picture of the item inline as well, whic...
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Security vulnerability in str.format in Python - forsaken http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/12/29/careful-with-str-format/ ====== ReedJessen The author proposes a change that we as the user can implement between now the the time this issue is patched. Having never worked on the core source code for a language like python,...
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Malaysia will return contaminated plastic waste to the countries that shipped it - DoreenMichele https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/asia/malaysia-plastic-waste-return-intl/index.html ====== docker_up This is a good thing. I had no idea we weren't recycling our plastic and just shipping it across the world, only to get dum...
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Mainland China sees rise in new coronavirus cases - kerng https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/mainland-china-sees-rise-in-new-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN21N009 ====== rdtwo Why do we even report this fake news. China’s numbers are all bogus. Might as well just phrase it as today the Chinese ...
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Show HN: A Twitter clone app built with getstream.io - tbarbugli https://github.com/GetStream/django_twitter ====== tbarbugli Disclaimer: I am the author of the linked app and a founder of GetStrean.io (TS'15).
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Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. - Loic Today, I was served the new Google homepage, the first that struck me out was how inconsistent it was. I started to look at all the inconsistencies and found many of them:<p>- 3 different arrows for the more links. - mixed use of upper/lower case for the "...
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A Type House Divided - maguay http://nymag.com/news/features/jonathan-hoefler-tobias-frere-jones-2014-6/ ====== eps I am partial to type design and I used to frequent Typophile and few other places where type designers hang out. It was always everyone's understanding that Hoefler and Frere-Jones were equal partners. H...
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Task – a Sweet.js macro for CSP in JavaScript - sriharis https://github.com/srikumarks/cspjs ====== juliangamble It looks there is already another CSP implementation in Javascript by James Long (@longster) [http://jlongster.com/Taming-the-Asynchronous-Beast-with- CSP-...](http://jlongster.com/Taming-the-Asynchronous...
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2000+ Goodies for Nerds - sciencenut https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies ====== mysterydip Nice list. This kind of thing used to just be a (personal) website. Is it on github for hosting, versioning, because it's trendy, or something else? ~~~ sciencenut Author here. Currently, it's only on GitHub. I am planning to cre...
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Does ad-blocking mean that in the future what we read will be the ad? - davidhariri https://dhariri.com/posts/570a9ec3d1befa66e6b8e1d0 ====== a3n > I think I'll still read the New York Times, but as entertainment; not as > news. I read all news as entertainment; the global pratfall. EDIT: like this: "How a federal s...
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A digital currency that works to the benefit of everyone - seak http://www.projectubu.com/ ====== continuational Interesting, but how are they going to verify that every recipient is an actual, living human? And do we have to trust a central authority for this verification?
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Smart people don't think others are stupid - cheeaun http://sivers.org/ss ====== coffeemug _There are no smart people or stupid people, just people being smart or being stupid._ The same could be said about almost all behaviors, such as courage, promiscuity, or whathaveyou. However, over time people tend to display c...
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Polly: LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations - luu https://polly.llvm.org/ ====== misnome This sounds interesting, but the documentation is really sparse, basically only how to turn it on. Am I supposed to be thinking of this a bit like Intel’s Parallel Studio’s Advisor tools for analysing...
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Ask HN: What are some gray area industries you know? - andreygrehov Examples of what I mean by gray area industries:<p><pre><code> - Programmatic advertising with its privacy issues - Cryptocurrencies with its KYC issues </code></pre> What else? ====== hemlokc I was a developer at a blockchain company based out of...
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Ask HN: Do you prefer “engineer” or “developer”? - crcl To the people in software, do you prefer calling yourself (or others) a &quot;software engineer&quot; or &quot;software developer&quot;? Is there even a difference?<p>Assuming there&#x27;s no difference in meaning, what are the pros&#x2F;cons of the abbreviations...
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Apple's Tim Cook: 'I don't want my nephew on a social network' - colinprince https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/19/tim-cook-i-dont-want-my-nephew-on-a-social-network ====== anoncoward111 "But I definitely won't block Instagram and FB and Youtube from my platform, like I've done to other apps."
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Should we build our religious prayer app? - jonnybegood http://invite.get-prayer.com ====== Metatron I've always seen prayer as personal relationship with God, not one to be turned into a popularity contest. Putting prayer into social media kind of sickens me. If you want to channel good will and enter into a conve...
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Today’s Google Doodle is a fun game in honor of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary - iamtechaddict http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/11/22/todays-google-doodle-is-a-fun-game-in-honor-of-doctor-whos-50th-anniversary/ ====== marquis Direct link to see it: [https://www.google.com.sg](https://www.google.com.sg) I grew...
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What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s? - PatrolX https://nakamoto.com/crypto-in-the-2020s/ ====== 0xspace I think cryptocurrency will be around for awhile. But, it's very difficult for anyone to use it as intended..a decentralized currency. Massive swings in value, easy manipulation of value/little regulati...
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Ask HN: Riak is dying, what are you replacing it with? - rexfuzzle ====== eip People use Riak?
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Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp - old_sound http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/animation_graphics/nichimen.lhtml ====== agavin Mario 64 wasn't itself written in LISP at all. It's models were built in Nichimen graphics, a SGI based 3D design tool written in Allegro CL. As far as I know, ...
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System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance - 0x10c0fe11ce https://medium.com/@mwichary/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f#.v0lk6vj4x ====== torgoguys Windows still has well over 80% of the desktop market and IT WASN'T TESTED? How can that be? It's not like this is an obscure Windows issue. View an...
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FREE BEER - neur0mancer http://freebeer.org/ ====== sigvef > FREE BEER is a beer which is free in the sense of freedom, not in the sense > of free beer. Now that is confusing! ~~~ pan69 It's a pun on a way to explain open source: Free as in freedom, not free as in free beer. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_...
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Press for Startups: 10 tips - drusenko http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/02/press-for-startups-10-tips.html ====== immad nice advice. Found the point about tuesday-thursday and how early to tell press most interesting. David, obviously weebly has received a lot of good/big coverage, how much of it was through you...
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Tufte in R - trengrj http://motioninsocial.com/tufte/ ====== minimaxir I've done a lot of work writing how to make nice plots in R/ggplot2 ([http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot- tutorial/](http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/)), but I admit that a lot here is new to me. As the Tufte code samples indicate, ...
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Hacker News Daily (announcement) - cperciva http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-07-14-hacker-news-daily.html ====== niyazpk cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles ...
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Ask HN: Where can you ask Stackoverflow questions but for money - vim_wannabe I feel a bit bad about asking this question here for free, but is there a version of Stackoverflow where I could offer people money for answering?<p>I have a dumb question about a popular PHP framework that I seriously am not able to Google....
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Transfer Learning Will Radically Change Machine Learning for Engineers - hsikka https://medium.com/modeldepot/transfer-learning-will-radically-change-machine-learning-for-engineers-78732b2bb415 ====== ea016 For those of you who want to play with transfer learning, Keras has a nice collection of models for computer vis...
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Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture) - chipsy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM ====== gregwebs This guy is a great presenter. The hypothesis behind the damages of fructose actually gets worse than what is presented here, as fructose is implicated in the creation of toxic AGE. For a more in depth overview...
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When would be a good time to quit an Internet startup, and how do you know? - Sharel When would be a good time to quit an internet startup, and how do you know? ====== rick888 1pm on Friday. It's always better to quit on a Friday. ~~~ Sharel :)
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Law firm made famous by Panama Papers document leak announces it's closing - salad77 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/panama-papers-law-firm-closes-1.4578329 ====== ggg9990 That’s one thing an oligarch’s lawyer is paid for... to take the fall when the shit hits the fan.
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The Phony Islam of ISIS - dtawfik1 http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/what-muslims-really-want-isis-atlantic/386156/?single_page=true ====== venomsnake I wonder what the reaction would be if we call the Christianity of any christian group phony. Especially if their views are extreme. My feeling ...
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H-1B visa lottery changing to favor those with advanced degrees - prostoalex https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/H-1B-visa-lottery-changing-to-favor-those-with-13574410.php ====== masonic [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19041303](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19041303) 220+ points
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Ask HN: Dear Self-Driving Car AI, Who Should Die? - jgill http://blog.jonathangill.org/self-driving-car-ai-who-should-die/?ref=hn ====== jgill Curious about the HN community's thoughts on this self-driving car AI conundrum. ~~~ dalke HN readers have had many opportunities to voice their thoughts. This was discussion...
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Your waitress, your professor - nvader http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/your-waitress-your-professor.html ====== rayiner The other day my wife and I were at a baby clothing store. We were chatting with the young woman at the counter, and she was complaining about her student loans. I asked her what her major ...
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The Trillion-Dollar Annual Interest Payment - westurner https://www.cpajournal.com/2019/04/26/the-trillion-dollar-annual-interest-payment/ ====== westurner > _Given the recent actions of Congress, and the years of prior inaction in > changing the nation’s fiscal path, the U.S. government’s annual interest > payment wi...
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Ask HN: Feedback on my online store builder collecting payments in ETH - federiconitidi As the title says, I built a little editor that allows you to easily create a personal&#x2F;project page, sell products and and collect payments in ETH. Customers can simply buy via Metamask.<p>The project stemmed from my experienc...
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The Zen of Missing Out on the Next Great Programming Tool (2016) - bhalp1 https://dev.to/ben/the-zen-of-missing-out-on-the-next-great-programming-tool ====== lafar6502 Modern ui is a mess and frameworks + stackoverflow make it messier. Old desktop APIs , even Win32, were at least built around a model that made some se...
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Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds - dezork http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Casting-Glass-from-3D-Printed-Molds ====== waiseristy Also see 3d printed aluminum casting molds: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVgPM1ojyLw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVgPM1ojyLw) ~~~ donquichotte Myfordboy is an excellent mechanic an...
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Nick goes to jail, but his promotors remain free - DanBC https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nick-goes-to-jail-but-his-promoters-go-scot-free-7kzzmckw9?shareToken=0c473ece28cb69ee572b819e803c2549 ====== DanBC Some notes: In England there's no difference between prison and jail. Some prisoners are on remand -- they hav...
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TensorFlow 1.11 released - jamesblonde https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.11.0 ====== jamesblonde The main highlight is a new version of AllReduce native to TensorFlow. This, like Horovod, builds a ring and has both native and NCCL implementations. Early results (albeit on a single host) show tha...
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Ask HN: How to Get IT Job as an Medical Doctor? - drcompute Hello,<p>I&#x27;m a medical doctor with medium IT skill (soft dev,network management) working in Algeria (north africa), and I want to change my career.<p>I want to have an IT Job in the western world (french or english speaking countries) , but I have 02 obs...
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New imagery of Port-au-Prince - wglb http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-imagery-of-port-au-prince.html ====== joubert Seems like OpenStreetMap has more (accurate) resources w.r.t. latest Haiti map changes: <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti>
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Paying $15 to Send $25 Has Bitcoin Users Rethinking Practicality - mbgaxyz https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-29/paying-15-to-send-25-has-bitcoin-users-rethinking-practicality ====== freech You know how much I'm justified to spend to protect myself from loosing 2% of my money in one year, due to the centr...
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Programming with Categories - kercker http://brendanfong.com/programmingcats.html ====== yearoflinux As someone who respects functional programming (because it removes geniuses from competing in my space) here's a nice video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI) Wh...
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Elastdocker – Elk on Docker, with Preconfigured Security, Tools, and Monitoring - SHERIFABDLNABY https://github.com/sherifabdlnaby/elastdocker ====== tmikaeld This is really useful, especially with the preconfigured S3 keystone. Could be used even for small docker nodes given enough RAM (elastic is hungry) ------ si...
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Don't be mean, it's stupid - yesplorer https://news.layervault.com/stories/2052-dont-be-mean-its-stupid ====== Udo I can't claim to have followed the LV fiasco on HN in all of its detail, but the parts I saw were mostly respectful and pretty well balanced. The "Designer News sucks" post was not, but that particular ba...
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Code School Launches - PStamatiou http://codeschool.com ====== norova I'd recommend putting the price for the level next to the "Buy Now" button after the level description. The price already exists in the top right, but after I've scrolled down and read everything, I'd rather see the price next to the button I'm ab...
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macOS X GateKeeper Bypass - raimue https://www.fcvl.net/vulnerabilities/macosx-gatekeeper-bypass ====== Someone _”The second legit feature is that zip archives can contain symbolic links pointing to an arbitrary location (including automount enpoints) and that the software on MacOS that is responsable to decompress zi...
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Woz comments on the "Jobs" movie - ohjeez https://plus.google.com/+CarmsPerez/posts/GnVTvQNgvpf?utm_content=buffer39a9a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== sp332 Already on the front page [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086411](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086411)
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Ask HN: Was I just offered horrible convertible note terms? - throwawayuc Was just offered $120K investment w/ a $500K cap; and 25% discount.<p>Some background: This is my first time taking money for my startup, so I ran it by my "silicon valley advisor" (a buddy from college who runs a notable tech startup in SV). ...
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Non programmers reading code (code as documentation) - smokeonline https://github.com/JpOnline/Blog/blob/master/language.md ====== smokeonline This idea passes through BDD, Ubiquitous language, code as documentation and single source of truth. Do you think is possible and desirable to have code so idiomatic that a do...
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Confirmationist and falsificationist paradigms of science (2014) - cbkeller https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2014/09/05/confirmationist-falsificationist-paradigms-science/ ====== outlace Article summary: Many scientists (particularly social scientists) think they’re doing Popperian falsification of their hypothe...
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Claims Her Website Was Hacked, Bigoted Anti-LGBT Content Added - snakeboy https://theintercept.com/2018/04/24/msnbcs-joy-reid-claims-her-website-was-hacked-and-bigoted-anti-lgbt-content-added-a-bizarre-story-liberal-outlets-ignore/ ====== snakeboy > According to Reid, she was the victim of “hackers”: ...
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What do you think of our model? Applying Open Source to online gaming - antoviaque http://community.hackit.cx/blog/2010/09/25/a-few-excerpts-from-an-interview/ ====== wccrawford Developers only has 1 p in it. The ideas for the games don't excite me. I am an avid gamer and I only signed up for Facebook for the gam...
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Meet the CamperForce, Amazon's Nomadic Retiree Army - SwellJoe https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic-retiree-army/ ====== quuquuquu Wow, what an awesome read. This guy spent 40 years of his life going from janitor to branch manager at McDonalds. He saved up 250k, and then Wells Fargo sold him ...
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Principles of designing Go APIs with channels - nishs https://inconshreveable.com/07-08-2014/principles-of-designing-go-apis-with-channels/ ====== kevindeasis This one too: [https://github.com/astaxie/gotraining-1/blob/master/08-concu...](https://github.com/astaxie/gotraining-1/blob/master/08-concurrency_channels/03-c...
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Node graph 3D modelling: Antimony - fezz https://vimeo.com/125111378 ====== fezz links: [http://mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony](http://mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony) and [http://github.com/mkeeter/antimony](http://github.com/mkeeter/antimony) Python scripting too.
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Cuil, semantic search by ex-Googlers - markbao http://mashable.com/2008/07/28/cuil-search-google/ ====== presty Semantic search? That's the first time I've seen that word used with Cuil. But then I read the article and it says "semi-semantic approach (Cuil’s engine recognizes the relations between certain words on a ...
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