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In a Twitter Age, Even Bad News Like Layoffs Is on the Company Blog - robg http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/technology/start-ups/05blog.html?pagewanted=all ====== namnori It is inevitable. When there is not enough work to go around, spider senses start tingling and employees start seeking information; a lot of it. Th...
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Learn indexing dammit - tejay http://gun.io/blog/learn-indexing-dammit/ ====== jmngomes Maybe those 5 "conventions" are in no particular order, but I'd argue you should first check your indexes and only then consider "trying cacheing". Also, I'd think it'd be better to create indexes after "rewriting your code to us...
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SFO near-miss: Air Canada flight got as low as 175 feet to planes on taxiway - mbgaxyz http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/11/sfo-near-miss-air-canada-flight-got-extremely-close-to-planes-on-taxiway/ ====== DrScump This provides added detail to the original article from mercurynews: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples - doublerebel http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24287207 ====== startupfounder "If you think about a cubic foot of this dirt and you just heat it a little bit - a few hundred degrees - you'll actually get off about two pints of water - like two water bott...
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Why RSS is Broken (and how to fix it) - moses1400 http://www.centernetworks.com/why-rss-is-broken ====== bootload Use Atom? ~ <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287> _"... I thought it is a great time to talk about why I think RSS is "broken" and in it's current form isn't sustainable over the long-term. Before I begin l...
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I like Meteor.js because I'm lazy - halisaurus http://paul.molluzzo.com/i-like-meteor-js-because-im-lazy/ ====== ilaksh There is an unfortunate belief that any programming system which is significantly easier to use must automatically have caveats that make it unfit for 'production' use. And another similar belief tha...
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The secret to success many don’t want to hear - kevinxray http://amazingserviceguy.com/2655/the-secret-to-success-many-dont-want-to-hear/ ====== patrickk there's a lot of words in this article without anything really noteworthy being said ------ kevinxray One dude's opinion...
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Which Types of Businesses Will Be Affected by Net Neutrality (And How) - psogle http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/which-types-businesses-will-be-affected-net-neutrality-and-h/ ====== adelevie What's completely missing in the "consumers" section is any discussion on the positive network externalities th...
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Goxel internals: how to store voxel data - guillaumec https://blog.noctua-software.com/goxel-internals-part2-data-structure.html ====== guillaumec Author here: feel free to ask me any question about the code.
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Ranking crowdsourced data with curves - timcederman http://www.cederman.com/?p=116 ====== ojbyrne As someone who works (sort of) for Tripadvisor, I found this interesting. I'm a little suspect that "Since I changed tactics, I have been having great hotel experiences." is confirmation bias, though. ~~~ timcederman M...
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Japan's older hikikomori live in isolation, shunning society for years - pmoriarty https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/national/social-issues/japans-older-hikikomori-live-isolation-shunning-society-years/ ====== buf I believe a lot of the fear of hikikomori can be resolved by working remotely. I'm an America...
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The Liskov Substitution Principle (2019) - juanorozcov https://www.brainstobytes.com/the-liskov-substitution-principle/ ====== sumanthvepa BTW if anyone is wondering why deriving class Square from class Rectangle is an error, it is primarily because the interface of the Rectangle class is mutable. If instead the Recta...
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Using a piano keyboard as a computer keyboard - fock https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5928061/using-a-piano-keyboard-as-a-computer-keyboard ====== melling “I have RSI problems and have tried 30 different computer keyboards which all caused me pain. Playing piano does not cause me pain” What is it about computer ke...
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Ship it, already - nbrogi https://medium.com/p/fb3ada43f760 ====== officemonkey I really need to ship this sucker, but I'm still feeling a lot of resistance. I know, I'll write a blog article! That's a useful piece of procrastination... ~~~ nbrogi Hahaha! You totally got me, officemonkey :-)! Going back to it _n...
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Ask HN: How to make Numbrosia 2 and 3 descriptions more comprehensible? - amichail See descriptions here:<p>http://www.numbrosia.com (Numbrosia and Numbrosia 2)<p>http://amichail.posterous.com/numbrosia-3-screenshot-and-description<p>The Numbrosia 2 and 3 descriptions are probably incomprehensible to most people.<p...
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What I learned about the iPhone AppStore over the last 2 months - c1sc0 This summer I was tasked to evaluate the AppStore and advise our company on whether to pursue a native iPhone app or a web-based approach. I decided against the AppStore for all of the reasons that have been floating around the blogosphere &#38;...
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Curiosity Rover Finds Rock Type That's Never Been Seen on Mars - drp4929 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/curiosity-strange-matijevic/ ====== tribeofone I'm all for what they are doing. And I'm for releasing articles to try and get press and awareness about the Mars rover and the efforts at NASA. But, yea, it...
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The Refuseniks - wallflower http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/11/09/in-the-magazine/the-refuseniks.html ====== trhway USSR, night, 4am, door bell ring in Rabinovich apartment. Rabinovich : "Who is there?" From outside of the door : "Just postmen. Rabinovich, would you agree that USSR is the best country in the...
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CEO's INTEL Trades on NASDAQ - T2_t2 http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/insiders/krzanich-brian-m-872413 ====== T2_t2 I don't know how to read this, as Krzanich "traded" 889,878 shares 11/29/2017, but 11/01/2017 lists that he had 495,743 "Shares Held". Can someone explain this to me? ~~~ bonzini He exercised options before...
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Sex and the single black woman - cloudkj http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=15867956 ====== byoung2 There's another factor working against black women: the article mentions that 96% of Black women are married to Black men, but research by Dr. Julia Hare of San Francisco's Black...
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A site for nerds who love numbers and watching ads - iamemera http://truereach.org/ ====== JBDJ And you thought just checking the YouTube counter gave you a comprehensive total of all the views a video had, guess again! It's never that easy! ------ katrinamel I love having one place to watch all my favorite ads! An...
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Some AngularJS pitfalls - shawndumas http://branchandbound.net/blog/web/2013/08/some-angularjs-pitfalls/ ====== KeyBoardG Thank you so much for writing this. My company is planning a move from Fat- client + in house server model to web based likely a SPA solution. I've spent the entire weekend pouring over JS framewo...
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Do I need to learn GIT? - psteve710 I am a web design,do is it necessary to know how to use GIT? ====== frozenport Yes because we collaborate using it. Its certainly easier then understanding the js this pointer. ------ walid If you use SVN, CVS or mercurial on a regular basis in your projects then you will probabl...
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The teleology of Internet congestion control [pdf] - gioele http://www.wischik.com/damon/Work/Talks/ipteleology.pdf ====== voltagex_ Title of the talk is: The teleology of Internet congestion control Teleology is: "The doctrine or study of ends or final causes, especially as related to the evidences of design or pu...
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The Myth of Cosmopolitanism - kawera http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/opinion/sunday/the-myth-of-cosmopolitanism.html?pagewanted=all ====== trajing As stated in the article, it's not that genuine cosmopolitanism doesn't exist- it's just rare. I'd be somewhat hard-pressed to find a political ideology that does not con...
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Why Words Are So Important - ColinWright http://anniemurphypaul.com/2012/12/why-words-are-so-important/ ====== theanalyst Word learning process almost reaches a plateau after leaving school, interesting to see vocab given more importance than math
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Mystery of Antarctica's Blood Falls Is Finally Solved - Mz https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/04/28/mystery-of-antarcticas-blood-falls-is-finally-solved/#347c454c2ef8 ====== Safety1stClyde That page delivered so many javaturds that it was impossible to read the content without the javashit.
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264 SPAM hosts on Google's own CIDR range - jebblue http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/ip-address/209.85.128.0-209.85.255.255 ====== jebblue It's bad when a major ISP like Time Warner has spammy servers and my email server has to reject email from even my own family members. It's really bad when email from professiona...
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Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware - cschmidt https://www.wired.com/story/eva-galperin-stalkerware-kaspersky-antivirus/ ====== justtopost As long as law enforcement has access to these tools, so too will the tech savvy public. The only protections are enforced universal human privacy rights, for e...
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The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies - gringoDan https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/the-promise-and-price-of-cellular-therapies ====== vikramkr As someone working in this field, I'm naturally a complete optimist in the promise of what it had to offer. The work done by june et al is amazing, and hopef...
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An Android user tries out the iPhone - usaar333 http://aaronstaley.blogspot.com/2010/06/android-user-tries-out-iphone-for.html ====== potatolicious > _"The iPhone dominates in UI performance"_ This is compared with a iPhone 3G, which already has somewhat pokey UI performance compared to the 3GS. On Tuesday we will ...
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Despite concerns, FDA approves new opioid 10x more powerful than Fentanyl - anigbrowl https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2018/11/02/fda-dsuvia-fentanyl-approval/ ====== sweetcherrypie Naloxone is the drug used to block the effects of opioids. LE carry them, but at the cost of $4500 for two injectors. The Narcan spray ...
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Containers and Cloud Security - ofrzeta https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/containers-and-cloud-security/ ====== ofrzeta The author is James Bottomley, an IBM Research Distinguished Engineer and Linux kernel developer. I think it also serves the purpose of plugging (or at least preparing the ground for) IBM Nabla, "a ...
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Telemetry Data on All Satellites Orbiting Earth - seanwessmith http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/ ====== seanwessmith Found this data set from reading SpaceX's public rebuttal to Intelsat's FCC investigation. [https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=164950&x=](https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=164950&x=)...
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Why I Like Mercurial More Than Git - gvnonor http://jhw.dreamwidth.org/1868.html ====== tobylane Articles like this make me wonder how git would be without the rebase command. Would it look any worse than mercurial? It (rebase) is kind of a stepping stone from non-dvcs, where an input is just a file, not data with h...
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Ask HN: How do you use SSH? - markgamache http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V7B88XX I've seen SSH authentication done in many ways by different companies. I'm curious how the masses to SSH.<p>Please take my survey! =) ====== sumeeta Cool. Now what?
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Viaweb was the first level 3 web platform according to the definition given by Andreessen? - drm237 http://lispmeister.com/blog/lisp-news/ning.html 'd like to point out that, as far as I know, Viaweb, an online shop system build by Paul Graham and Robert Morris, was the first level 3 web platform according to the def...
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Where can I find examples of complete AngularJS apps? - tacon https://harmlesscodingtips.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/where-can-i-find-examples-of-complete-angularjs-apps/ ====== SchizoDuckie You can find my quite heavy live app DuckieTV (think popcorntime/sickbeard for TV-Shows, but with your own torrent-client) here: ...
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Ask HN: Best environments to hack in SF - EddieB Hi all,<p>I'm in SF for two months to explore and take some time out to work on personal projects and I'm looking for some nice places to hack on my projects.<p>Places with WiFi are preferable but not a necessity. I'm just looking for good environments from calm to bu...
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No Experimental Evidence for the Significant Anthropogenic Climate Change - ScottFree https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00165 ====== tlb The title seems way overblown. The actual paper observes that cloud cover went down at the same time as temperature went up over the last few decades, and so perhaps the temperature went up...
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Khan Academy Lite - aronasorman http://bjk5.com/post/101915851596/ka-lite ====== jamalex Thanks for the very sweet blog post, Kamens! We would love to answer any questions about KA Lite or Learning Equality, and where we're headed. I'll be on a plane for the next few hours, but others on the team can chime in and I...
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Adding a Working Headphone Jack to an iPhone 7 - mef https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j557j3/a-diy-hero-added-a-working-headphone-jack-to-an-iphone-7-plus ====== stevefeinstein The way he hand-waves away Apple's statement about there being no extra space in the device is arrogant and disingenuous at best. D...
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Paralegal with U.S. Attorney's Office accused of tipping off Mexican drug cartel - randycupertino https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/paralegal-with-us-attorneys-office-arrested-accused-of-tipping-off-mexican-drug-cartel ====== seibelj Make $50k government salary or make $200k tipping off the outlaws with informati...
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WannaCry savior is rewarded with a year's free pizza and $10K for saving Internet - dsr12 https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/16/wannacry-savior-rewarded-years-free-pizza-10000-saving-internet ====== SideburnsOfDoom FYI, the pizza freebe from JustEat will be due to this tweet, where the company logo is visible. [h...
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Can Technology Help Fix the Housing Market? - pseudolus https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/upshot/can-technology-help-fix-the-housing-market.html ====== resalisbury Here's and oversimplified way to thing about the housing problem. It's 90% a policy problem and 10% a technology problem. Todays technology allows you to ...
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Tell HN: Share your $75.00 free (new user) adwords credits - aresant Not sure if anybody else still subscribes to actual paper magazines, but my Wired subscription keeps giving me a $75.00 new user adwords credit - I posted in a comment below.<p>I imagine others might have similar, please share. ====== aresant Anybo...
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Show HN: CryptoTrader.Tax – Tax calculator for your crypto trading - wiidude32 https://www.cryptotrader.tax ====== masonic This is their _tenth_ Show HN. ~~~ dang Yes, that's enough. The FAQ says a small number of reposts is ok, but ten is not small. [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html](https://news.ycombinat...
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My Chrome Extension: Unencrypted Password Warning - swolchok https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mjpinemnkjlppmemjfabdaelpfgfjgkj ====== swolchok A few questions I'd like to see discussed: 1) Do you find the description convincing? 2) Are you put off from installing by the warning that the extension has "a...
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Ask HN: Received an offer to buy out my web app, what do? - zlappo I literally just launched my MVP last week and signed up my first few users, one of whom turned out to be an angel investor.<p>After exchanging a few emails about my app, he offered to buy out my app &quot;as-is,&quot; since he&#x27;d have access to th...
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Ask HN: How did you build a relevant audience on Twitter? - danielfone I'm a freelance Ruby on Rails engineer trying to build an audience and develop a personal brand on twitter. To do so, I want to understand how to provide consistent value to a technical audience in 140 character chunks.<p>I'm especially intereste...
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Open Library - nomdep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Library ====== nomdep Fun fact: The Open Library is the largest and most well known project still using the web.py framework. That's because Aron Swartz (you remember him) and Anand Chitipothu were the creators of both projects.
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Show HN: Wrte.io – Charge for each email you get - ivanpashenko http://wrte.io ====== keesj Is the payment to get the email delivered or to get guaranteed response? I'd prefer the latter for two reasons: 1) as a receiver I don't want to miss out on a potentially interesting email just because the sender couldn't pa...
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Traveling to the Sun: Why Won't Parker Solar Probe Melt? - dnetesn https://phys.org/news/2018-07-sun-wont-parker-solar-probe.html ====== ArtWomb Baby steps to humanity's first Dyson Sphere ;) Graphene oxide sheets may be the ideal candidate for solar harvesting. Full radiation spectrum absorbance. High conductivity. ...
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Pysendfile - A Python Unix tool for sending files. - thetabyte https://github.com/mrjordangoldstein/pysendfile ====== thetabyte OP and script author here. You can read a blog post about it at: <http://jordangoldstein.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/pysendfile/>
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Murray Gell-Mann talks about Feynman's idiosyncrasies - crazyfrog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMsgxIIQEE ====== dmfdmf This link was dead but I vouched for it. I know on HN et. al. Feynman is a big hero but Gell-Mann was totally respectful and just gave his view on the person of Feynman, not his image that he app...
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Show HN: Discover product ideas for SMEs in developing countries - jibril-gudal https://customerzero.substack.com/ ====== jibril-gudal Hey everyone. I've starting a newsletter, CustomerZero. Each month I interview 4 small to medium sized businesses operating in developing countries. I provide the context of their ma...
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Dying baby saved when doc designed & built dialysis machine from scratch in garage - kirubakaran http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7542404.stm ====== sspencer That doctor deserves some serious kudos. I cannot even fathom how grateful those parents must have been for his work after being told by all other doctors tha...
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Dotsies (2012) - tosh http://dotsies.org ====== c517402 It seems like the correspondence should be something other a-z. Something like making the vowels or more common letters more distinctive. E.g., making the vowels the lightest weight, that is make aeiou use the single dot letters dotsies uses for abcde. ------ vo...
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Ed Lu (NASA astronaut and CEO of B612 Foundation) Video AMA - dwynings https://shortwave.co/c6070856/ ====== tchae is shortwave a video AMA platform? ------ clicks So, to be clear, this is not a Reddit AMA. Which he did do, some while ago: [http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y5vn0/i_am_ed_lu_forme...](http://w...
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Silicon Valley Is Lying to You About Economic Inequality - bootload http://mic.com/articles/131861/silicon-valley-is-lying-to-you-about-economic-inequality ====== bootload _" using the power of monopoly to squeeze others out of a market, and hurting the ability of workers to secure their own rights."_ This kind of as...
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UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? - justincormack https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/ ====== ackalker From the article: "it’s a really good idea to go and read the UEFI specification. You can do this. It’s very easy. You don’t have to pay anyone any money. [...
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Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference - nutmeg http://www.publico.es/ciencias/432664/richard-stallman-rajoy-nos-quiere-matar-a-todos ====== me_myselft Hi, I am from Barcelona, and I was there. Stallman is a great man. I dont know what happened at the end, but when we were in the talk the organizers told u...
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Microsoft pays $100K bounty to hacker - Maven911 http://business.financialpost.com/2013/10/10/microsoft-corp-hacking-bounty/?__lsa=d344-d1e8 ====== maxjus Here's a story you guys might appreciate. I found a cross site scripting vulnerability in Bing.com that was kind of hilarious. Searching for: </...
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The Secret Coach - stevenboudreau http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/21/technology/reingold_coach.fortune/index.htm ====== stevenboudreau Is there a role/need for a "Bill Campbell" type in a startup? Perhaps as an early employee/team member?
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Rietveld -I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead. Here is why - sodosopa https://rianrietveld.com/2018/10/09/i-have-resigned-the-wordpress-accessibility-team/ ====== andybak Why is "React" capitalized every single time?
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Opinion piece on GHC back ends - allenleein https://andreaspk.github.io/posts/2019-08-25-Opinion%20piece%20on%20GHC%20backends.html ====== Mathnerd314 When I looked into LLVM for my own little language, my general impression was that LLVM was great if you are writing a C-like language or something close, since you can...
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The Breakout List, 2017 - clbrook https://breakoutlist.com/ ====== laddng "As a side note, if joining Amazon, go to AWS. If joining Facebook, go to the AI lab or Oculus. If joining Alphabet, go to DeepMind." I wonder who their target audience is - CS PhD from a top 5 school? ------ sage76 I'm wondering if people her...
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FCC's deregulation of business data lines could mean a price hike - clumsysmurf https://www.pcworld.com/article/3190015/internet/fccs-deregulation-of-business-data-lines-could-mean-a-price-hike.html ====== downrightmike I wonder how much money Ajit Pai is making on the backend.
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Tumblr the Day After - feross https://ma.tt/2019/08/tumblr-the-day-after/ ====== pixelmonkey "Automattic is still a startup — I’m sure there are deep-pocketed private equity firms that could have outbid us, but the most likely outcome then would have been an “asset” getting chopped up and sold for parts. [...] Instead...
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Which vegan milk is best for the environment? - camtarn https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46654042 ====== cheezymoogle Almond milk is my bugbear. Comparing the land and water use of cows versus almonds is ridiculous for many _many_ reasons. If you've been to a cattle ranch (not a CAFO) and to an almond ...
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AFrameJS Tutorial - A Response to "Backbone.js Tutorial - By noob for noobs" - stomlinson http://www.shanetomlinson.com/2011/aframejs-tutorial-for-noobs/ ====== stomlinson If anybody has any suggestions, comments, ideas, bug fixes, please tell me, I want to make AFrameJS the strongest Javascript MVC library out!
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An Automat is a fast food restaurant where foods and drink are served by vending machines. - pius http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat ====== RobGR I have always wondered why these died out. I have never seen one myself, but they seem the most efficient and streamlined way to run a restaurant. It would possible to pro...
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Ask HN: Which Project Management/Issue Tracking for distributed teams? - codenerdz Our team is distributed over several timezones, but this should apply to any people that work remotely.<p>As an experiment we tried to rely on GitHub issues as a project/task management/time tracking tool as well as issue tracking per...
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Breaking down the legal case against @BPGlobalPR Twitter feed - grellas http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2010/06/breaking-down-the-legal-case-against-bpglobalpr.html ====== rriepe This tweet was clever, but I couldn't help but cringe when I saw it going around Twitter, giving everyone a healthy dos...
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Ask HN: Becoming a Python Master. - shire I want to get into Web Applications using Python and also Master Python. Has anyone used http:&#x2F;&#x2F;python.org&#x2F; to learn the language completely? and how hard is it? I have knowledge with Java and PHP can any recommend the Python documentation for learning Python?...
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Show HN: Pasteboard - HTML5 Web App for Quick & Easy Image Sharing (Open Source) - JoelBesada http://pasteboard.co/ ====== raquo Nice design. Bug report: I've copy-pasted an image file from my desktop and that's what a got: <http://pasteboard.co/1345297649815178.png> (that's an OSX default thumbnail image, not my i...
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Pycon 2008 Disappointment - nickb http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2b6cb0e7245347be# ====== thorax I was at Pycon this week. While I'd like to see no highlighted sponsor talks in the lightning talks (I was bumped partially due to them eating up available time), I didn't feel like...
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Pomera: Pocket Typewriter with E Ink - sohkamyung https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2132003782/pomera-pocket-typewriter-with-e-ink ====== PyroLagus Cool idea, but pretty expensive. Might be worth the price if you could run linux on it, but I suppose that would drain the battery pretty quickly; I'm not sure how well...
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A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions - minimaxir http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/hacking-hacker-news/ ====== pg There was a point when we figured out how to stop spam submissions almost completely. That was probably what happened at the end of 2011. That would have been about the right time. ~~~ d23 I d...
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Obama "delays" promised elimination of capital gains taxes on start-ups till 2014 - miked http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/03/talk_and_walk.php ====== panda88 Tax the rich, change carried interest capital gains rules and now leaving startups out in the cold. Can Obama find any more ways to take the incentive to...
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Grey Apocalypse - kernel_sanders http://nick.geek.nz/greyapocalypse/ ====== kernel_sanders infinite { repeat(10){ = while(<128){+}++ >=^ = while(<128){+}++ v } v }
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You advocate a [blank] approach to calendar reform - apsec112 http://qntm.org/calendar ====== brownbat ( ) having months of different lengths is irritating ( ) having months which vary in length from year to year is maddening People toy with calendar reform exactly because so many boxes are already ticked in our cur...
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Definitions, Definitions, Do We Need Them? - profquail http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/definitions-definitions-do-we-need-them/ ====== nzmsv Definitions are useful for experts in a field. It is much faster to just refer to a concept by its name rather than explaining it every time. Unfortunately, definitio...
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A Shocking Truth About CSS - _pius http://blog.twoalex.com/2010/02/26/a-shocking-truth-about-css/ ====== Jim72 Please, using more CSS selectors than DOMs isn't going to kill a site. In fact, it isn't even close to being a bottleneck. We are talking milliseconds. If you want speed gains, properly compress your images! ...
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Solve this riddle and win 0.1 Bitcoin - angelortega http://triptico.com/notes/btc_riddle.html ====== ColinWright The experiment is over. Thanks to everyone who participated. Well, that was interesting.
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Is it possible to create an AI with HTML? - saifs ====== anayar HTML is a markup language, not really a programming language. So I'm going to say no but I'm sure there are those smarter than me who can be more definitive. ~~~ anayar Actually make that not really* a straight up _NOT_ ~~~ hanniabu Agreed ------ speedp...
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Ticketmaster will admit you to events using audio data transmitted from phone - amrshafik https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/04/ticketmaster-will-soon-admit-you-to-events-using-audio-data-transmitted-from-your-smartphone/ ====== rosariotech Sounds cool.
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I'll build your MVP in a few months and support it for the year - curiously http://appsonify.com ====== dang This is not a Show HN. Please read the rules: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). ------ zubairq Which country are you based in? ~~~ curiously Canada.
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Quantum Air buys Bye's electric airplanes - prostoalex http://aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2019/august/22/quantum-air-to-buy-24-bye-aerospace-eflyers ====== cagenut I went down an electric-flight youtube rabbit hole a couple months ago and was genuinely shocked at how far things have already developed. If anyone e...
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Cognitect, please stop adding alpha to your namespaces - zirak https://tonsky.me/blog/alpha/ ====== ruuda I think the deeper insight here is not limited to Cognitect or Clojure: it is that once software gains traction, it is no longer up to the author to determine alpha/beta/stable status. If something is widely depen...
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KLM is celebrating Comic Sans day today (NL only) - dutchbrit http://www.klm.com/travel/nl_nl/index.htm ====== LinaLauneBaer It seems to be "organized" by a radio station. This radio station is organizing a Comic Sans day and KLM joined the Comic Sans day. In addition to using Comnic Sans KLM is also giving away tic...
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The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 (1992) [pdf] - nkurz http://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/parameters/articles/2010winter/dunlap_jr.pdf ====== dforrestwilson1 [http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/general-mattis-crosses- pot...](http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/general-mattis-crosses- potomac-100000-troop...
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Ask HN: Legal implications with torrent scraping site? - throwaway989 I recently had an idea for a weekend project to build a simple web app that scrapes popular torrent sites (like thepiratebay.org) and displays the newest movies, albums, etc in a clean user interface with thumbnails and torrent 'health'.<p>Obvious...
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CSS's "transparent" isn't all that transparent - arpohahau http://coderwall.com/p/tpmsta ====== repsilat No dark grey line in Konqueror 4.8.4 or Chromium 20 here, but Firefox 13.0.1 does mess it up like he says. (EDIT: browser versions added, OS is 64-bit Arch Linux) From a practical standpoint I guess you should be ...
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Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site - potomak https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/redis-db/d4QcWV0p-YM ====== antirez That's porn for database geeks: 100 million pageviews per day, 300k requests per second against Redis. The way they use MySQL is also interesting IMHO: they populate a relational datab...
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All the Problems with WeWork’s Tyrannical New “No Meat” Policy - shimms https://slate.com/business/2018/07/all-the-problems-with-weworks-no-meat-policy.html ====== talltimtom People who eat meat (me included) do not need to eat meat at every single meal. So what if the company events will be vegetarian and you expense...
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14 Year Old Call of Duty Hacker Hired by Microsoft - mjurek http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/05/27/14-year-old-call-of-duty-hacker-hired-by-microsoft/ ====== patio11 A friend of mine from high school bragged that he achieved some measure of infamy in middle school by hacking Diablo in such a manner that it was possible...
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Webrf: refresh that browser on your other screen - rynop http://rynop.com/web-devs-refresh-that-browser-on-your-other-s ====== rynop Looking for someone to help implement the mac port of this as I don't have a mac. I have a start but its probably not the best way. Direct link to github: <https://github.com/rynop/we...
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Nuclear Technology Abandoned Decades Ago Might Give Us Safer, Smaller Reactors - eaguyhn http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/26/molten-salt-nuclear-reactors/ ====== flatfilefan The article totally ignores the progress in the rest of the world. For example Russia, that also developed world first nuclear plan...
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Adevinta acquires eBay Classified Groups for 9.2B$ - Darkstryder https://www.adevinta.com/news/adevinta-signs-agreement-to-acquire-ebay-classifieds-group/ ====== AznHisoka They acquired the classified business not the entire company. Might want to make that clear in the title.
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