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The “Melissa Worm” Through the Eyes of the FBI - morisy https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/nov/13/the-melissa-worm-through-the-eyes-of-the-fbi/ ====== octosphere More on Melissa here and also some more detail on David L. Smith: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus)](https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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GNU Wget2 1.99.2 (Beta) - lelf https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-09/msg00001.html ====== saagarjha I didn't even know that there _was_ a Wget2…what's the development progress on this? Can (or should) I be using it instead of Wget? ~~~ msla It can download faster due to using more modern features (paral...
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Git from the inside out - beliu https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/git-from-the-inside-out ====== xelxebar I read somewhere about a person wanting to understand git, so they made .git itself into a repo and watched what changed as they used git normally. Thought that was pretty clever. ------ chmaynard Looks like thi...
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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System - civilian http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/new_planetary_system.html ====== cryptoz I'm going to be hanging on to the edge of my seat for the next two years, waiting and waiting for that most incredible and exciting announcement! I c...
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The 64GB Surface Pro Ships With Just 23GB of Usable Space - justinbkerr http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/64gb_surface_pro_ships_just_23gb_usable_space123 ====== Osiris Windows, for a long time, has consumed 15-20GB of space on a clean install. The Surface Pro is running a full install of Windows 8, plus include...
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First ever blockchain based elections - stoneheads https://coingape.com/sierra-leone-elections-2018-with-permissioned-blockchain/ ====== austinary Other countries also like india, china, where corruption level is very high, must take inspiration from it..
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Show HN: Earn Bitcoins with your t-shirt - verybadge http://badgerhunt.com ====== drcode This idea is not viable as far as I can tell... Besides the obvious flaw of this service (it is a centralized business, which compromises most of the benefits a decentralized currency like Bitcoin has to offer) there HAS to be a...
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Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos - patocka http://www.quantamagazine.org/20141204-a-common-logic-to-seeing-cats-and-cosmos/ ====== thisisdave This could be an important result, since there's a _lot_ of theory and expertise regarding renormalization group methods, but I think it's too early t...
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A case for a four day work week - ifearthenight http://www.inc.com/jay-love/the-case-for-a-four-day-work-week.html ====== MortenK Excellent article, and especially good content in the comments on the site.
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Hidden treasure in the D standard library - nkurz http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/ ====== thinkpad20 I'm curious how D implements memoizing an arbitrary function. To memoize something, you need to be able to check if it's being called with the same arguments. But to do that, you nee...
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Top Common and Crucial Challenges Faced by Startups and Ways to Overcome Them - kiranpateltech For any business challenges are to come and they will have to find ways to overcome it and definitely it is an important step. For the same reason, it is important to make sure that these issues are not taken lightly. They n...
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NPR's Planet Money Podcast: Bitcoin - mukyu http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/13/137795648/the-tuesday-podcast-bitcoin ====== mukyu Features discussion with Gavin Andresen (bitcoin developer), Bruce Wagner, Benjamin Friedman (economist at Harvard), Ronald Mann (law at Columbia) and covers the basics of bitcoin,...
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Ask HN: Is investment taxed? - legally Is venture, angel, or friends and family investment taxed? Does the company receiving investment pay the tax or does the investor? Are there investment tax credits? I'm in the United States, but it would be interesting to see how it works elsewhere. ====== simon_ Proceeds from ...
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Scientists Dispute 2-Degree Model Guiding Climate Talks (via wsj.com) - raspasov https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjan4qah7fJAhWDnYgKHd3nCrgQqQIIHjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fscientists-dispute-2-degree-model-guiding-climate-talks-1448829047&usg=...
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Linux Summit Will Preview New Advanced File System - ajbatac http://www.osnews.com/story/20383/Linux_Summit_Will_Preview_New_Advanced_File_System ====== qhoxie While ext3 with some tuning has done me proud for a long time, it is really exciting to see stabilization in these advancements. Having used ZFS extensively i...
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How to apologize for fixing a non-bug: Instapaper - joeybaker http://blog.instapaper.com/post/1135784328 ====== daniel02216 Sometimes 'technically correct' isn't always the best kind of correct. Thanks, Futurama.
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An elastic conductor makes possible cheap, conformable displays - dhimes http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22632/ ====== frankus One step closer to my slap-bracelet cell phone ([http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Slap_20Bracelet_20Cell_20Phon...](http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Slap_20Bracelet_20Cell_20Phone)) :)...
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Traffic Is Fake, Audience Numbers Are Garbage, Nobody Knows How Many See What - bobajeff https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160915/18183535533/traffic-is-fake-audience-numbers-are-garbage-nobody-knows-how-many-people-see-anything.shtml ====== tomludus There are also a huge number of people using as blockers which act...
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First impressions of an Amazon bookstore - walterbell http://www.idealog.com/blog/first-impressions-amazon-bookstore/ ====== tzs It sounds like something out of the song "In the Year 2525".
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Why Jakob Nielsen Is Wrong About Mobile Websites - boopsie http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/why-jakob-nielsen-is-wrong-about-mobile-websites/ ====== psweber Yes, everyone please stop listening to Nielsen. Also, check out the staff section on the Nielsen Norman Group site: <http://www.nngroup.com/about/people/> \- 4 ...
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Acceptable Ads explained: monetization - kawera https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-explained-monetization ====== dingo_bat Already moved to ublock origin. Goodwill is a funny thing, once you lose it, it's impossible to gain back. ~~~ vmorgulis Me too. ublock is far better. I play sometimes with tag selector...
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Startup Madness - guglanisam http://sameerg.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/startup-madness/ ====== bootload _"... Each time we met a new person, we were constantly thinking of how this person can help our venture, . Everywhere we went, we explored if there was something there that could benefit our startup. Frankly we wer...
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CNAME support for GitHub Pages - bprater http://github.com/blog/315-cname-support-for-github-pages ====== teej this is practically unreadable on the iPhone. ~~~ ichverstehe This is practically unreadable on my Nokia 3200.
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How do I find a job at a non-profit? - debacle Salary has been my #1 focus for the last few years. I&#x27;ve done well for myself, but now I&#x27;m looking at what I want to accomplish outside of making money.<p>I&#x27;m a software generalist, with people + technical skills. My salary requirements are flexible, but I ...
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Why I Hate Adobe - marcamillion http://marcgayle.com/2010/04/21/why-i-hate-adobe/ ====== raganwald The title is linkbait (Capt. Obvious, at your service), but the post itself was a worthwhile read. Two paragraphs stood out for me: _...I have to restart Firefox, which then loads Adobe Download Manager, which then h...
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Startup Stock Option Value Calculator - linouk23 https://valuation.vc/startup_options.html ====== uberman The calculator _might_ be good (I did not try it), but from my experience a good rule of thumb is that your startup stock options are worth nothing. The most likely positive exit is that your company (assuming yo...
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An Exciting Twist on Fundraising - FundCrazr https://fundcrazr.com/how-it-works ====== FundCrazr Looking for thoughts on: Is our mission clear? Do you understand our concept? Would you participate as a fundraising manager and/or a supporter? Thank you!
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Best Python Reference Ever - pizzaburek https://github.com/gto76/python-cheatsheet ====== FZ1 A key hallmark of Python is readability - which this cheat sheet has managed to royally screw up. It looks more like an XML cheatsheet at first glance. I work in python full-time for a living, and found myself having to re-...
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Mini, Micro Funds for App Developers - kanny96 http://www.iphonedev.in/iPhone/Mini-Micro-Funds-for-App-Developers.html ====== ktharavaad The iPhone craze right now reminds me a lot of the rush in summer 2007 onto the facebook platform. After the initial success of the FB apps, didn't a lot of VCs also start up funds...
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Collection of CSS Creations | CSSDeck - jalbertbowden http://cssdeck.com/#.T7zRSFbe2MQ.hackernews ====== ashamedlion The homepage design is certainly "inspired" by Dribbble. ~~~ binarydreams honestly, when i launched the website, i came to know that dribbble had similar listing (from such feedbacks like yours :P). tr...
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Death by Internet? (Tyler Clementi’s suicide) - gkmarshall http://marshall2law.com/ ====== samstave No, we should not use emotional events to find ways to regulate the internet - or let politicians creep in where they shouldn't be meddling. If you want to try this guy, try him on privacy violations, breaking and en...
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My open source HTML5 puzzle game - adam-a http://ohgames.co.uk/pingpongspidermother/ ====== html5 Hi OhGames! Just a quick note that I tested the game on Safari (Latest/Mac) it the keyboard keys are not recognized. Regards, HTML5 ~~~ adam-a That is strange. I don't have a mac to test on until next week unfortunat...
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A Patent for a Wireless Taser Could Signal a New Competitor - IntronExon https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/13/17007376/axon-taser-monopoly-digital-ally-wireless ====== mmcconnell1618 From the article, it sounds like the shock is triggered wirelessly from a projectile that is conventionally fired at the target person. Th...
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Facebook open sourced object detection from images technology , SharpMask - tachyons https://code.facebook.com/posts/561187904071636/segmenting-and-refining-images-with-sharpmask/?refid=52&_ft_=qid.6322801441051145749%3Amf_story_key.1023434960795274919%3AeligibleForSeeFirstBumping.1 ====== epberry Wow this field is mo...
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A brief history of AI - aidanrocke https://keplerlounge.com/2017/02/08/a-brief-history-of-ai/ ====== aidanrocke tl;dr: The main point I’m trying to drive home is semantic in nature. There is no hard and fast rule that AI has to be digital or that it must be programmed via a laptop. The key thing is that there are uni...
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Ask HN: Time series analysis - dageroth I am currently interested in time series analysis as it seems to be a great feature for all kinds of software to report unexcpected events. My first go is rather simple with just taking the last 90 datapoints and then look whether it differs more than 2 or 3 times from the sta...
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Bloomberg launches $2,000 Email Newsletters - Cmccann7 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0d10f15c-e532-11df-8e0d-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss ====== sushi Good Luck with that. They'll need it.
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Combustion-derived nanoparticles in Alzheimer disease development: study - okket https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-culprit-hidden-plain-sight-alzheimer.html ====== Tharkun I guess fine Particulate Matter (PM) is the lead of the 21st century. Hopefully findings like these (and those linking it to cardiovascular is...
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Winds – An Open Source Personalized RSS Reader - tortilla http://winds.getstream.io/ ====== AdmiralAsshat Do people really want recommendations? I personally want to just have an RSS reader that gives me the articles from the sites I freaking asked for. Not what some service _thinks_ I'll like. Google, Pocket, and ot...
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Ask HN: Why are there no unions for employees in your startup? - vinnyglennon ====== Cyberdog I don't work at a startup currently, but I have in the past, so I'll answer it as if that company hadn't failed and I still worked there: Because nobody has taken it upon themselves to start one, I suppose.
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The Great Pacification (review of Steven Pinker's new book) - klenwell http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/books/review/the-better-angels-of-our-nature-by-steven-pinker-book-review.html?_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateema2&pagewanted=all ====== klenwell The detail I found most interesting from the review: _If the avera...
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Why Don't People Manage Debt Better? - sergeant3 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-don-t-people-manage-debt-better/ ====== imgabe Anyone at a point where they are making monthly payments on multiple credit cards has already lost the debt game. People don't manage debt better because they have bee...
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Does this look familiar to anyone? - lurkage http://www.founderscoop.com/apply.php ====== brett I would argue that if you're going to go the trouble of including a "Shout- outs" page, you should mention the company who's application you stole verbatim: <http://www.founderscoop.com/shout-outs.php> ~~~ chengmi Brad Fe...
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Ask HN: Recent engineer grad. What should I study/do for junior dev positions? - cocoawhale In terms of CS knowledge, I have the equivalent of an Intro CS class and a Data Structures&#x2F;Algorithms class under my belt. I have many projects on my GitHub but all of the projects (about 5-6 of them) are Hackathon (crappi...
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Ask HN: How to force customers to be more efficient - source99 Hi all,<p>I work with a customer&#x27;s engineer (subject matter expert) that is responsible for reviewing some outputs from my tools. Specifically a video. Specifically dozens of videos a day.<p>I sync all the videos to dropbox. He views the videos man...
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Ask HN: What to do when you don't have enough problems to solve? - _bxg1 Sometimes I come home from work at the end of the day and I still have the hankering for a problem that needs solving with code.<p>The issue is, if it&#x27;s something that someone else has already done a strictly better job of implementing, it t...
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New Internet Advertising Model - Pay-Per-Chat - comptr http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2181914.htm ====== comptr Pay-Per-Click sucks!
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GitHub Down with a 503 - cheese1756 https://status.github.com/ ====== dmoy Random somewhat on-topic question. How does one measure ones technical capability to keep up services that are more available and dependent than third party solutions? I mean obviously starting out, almost everybody can benefit from doing a lot...
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Fundraising $5000 for my Startup - ITpro http://www.9mim.com/ ====== indeed30 If you want money, you'll need to explain to me: 1) How kibitzO is different to Quora 2) How moozeekaa will be better or more than just aggregated youtube tutorials 3) What on earth kingdomlove actually is. I'm not trying to put you of...
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Why I Built an AngularJS Training Site on Rails - joelhooks http://joelhooks.com/blog/2013/09/15/why-i-built-an-angularjs-training-site-on-rails/# ====== _mtr This isn't a full-blown example, but AngularJS works phenomenally as an interaction layer on top of a REST API. Creating such an API with Rails is almost triv...
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Princeton Piton Processor - rbanffy http://parallel.princeton.edu/piton/# ====== nickpsecurity I keep telling OSS HW people to build on OpenSPARC given you have an ASIC- proven, badass design to start with. Good to see that they not only did that but put 25 cores on a 32nm node. We have Raptor trying to get OpenPOWER ...
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Migrate your Java Application from Heroku to OpenShift - OpenShift https://www.openshift.com/blogs/migrate-your-java-application-from-heroku-to-openshift ====== sghill I haven't used a serious app in production on OpenShift, but I have been playing around with a Java project recently. Assuming I get it to production...
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There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions - OyoKooN https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions ====== habosa You'll notice the entire Bitcoin community has changed tone. It used to be "this is the currency of the future, down with cash/Visa!" but now you hear "Bitcoin is not a currency, it's a st...
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A little bump in the wire that makes the Internet faster - eadmund https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201808 ====== Animats The bufferbloat guy is much better at explaining this than I am. The problem needs a PR guy, and now it has one. I wrote this up in 1985 as RFC 970, "On packet switches with infinite storage", which is a...
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Not your grandfather's braking system - elblanco http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/not-your-grandfathers-braking-system/article1456851/ ====== davidmurphy Call me old fashioned, but when it was just mechanical, there'd be less that could go wrong. Yes, I realize, less that could go right too (in ter...
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Guess What: iCloud Uses Windows Azure Services For Hosting Data - martymatheny http://www.redmondpie.com/guess-what-icloud-uses-windows-azure-services-for-hosting-data/ ====== varunsrin [http://gigaom.com/2011/06/10/apple-icloud-microsoft-azure- am...](http://gigaom.com/2011/06/10/apple-icloud-microsoft-azure-amazon/)...
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Stop Measuring Everything - smalter https://savagethoughts.com/stop-measuring-everything-8adb1118e0e5#.j0b6kqsfq ====== lmm The correct response to bad measurement isn't to throw up your hands and stop trying to measure. It's to get better measures. Be careful about your measure. Check that what you're measuring actu...
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Shellcheck: a static analysis tool for shell scripts - pyotrgalois http://www.shellcheck.net/ ====== dpina Just spent some time sending my scripts to this site for it to analyse and see what it does. I can see that while it wasn't be able to tell me of more efficient code to achieve my goal (wasn't really hopping for ...
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Best Site to Upload Video To? Want Quality and Portability. - berecruited Of course there is Youtube... but quality stinks. I love Vimeo, but the upload process takes FOREVER. I used to love VideoEgg, but they killed the consumer part.<p>Where should I go?! ====== jacobbijani I think Vimeo is still the best if you w...
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Ask HN: Do you have a bucket list? - josephwegner If so, why? What’s on it? Have you completed anything? What’s your plan to make progress on it? ====== kwiromeo I had one in college and it had some very college things on it (this was 7 years ago). It was a short term bucket list. Here's a short copy/paste: \- Make a ...
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Zirtual may have just abruptly shut down - opendoorryan Slack message from my ZA 10 min ago:<p>I&#x27;m up late tonight and received an email to my personal email from Zirtual that for financial reasons, they cannot continue as a company effective immediately. I would still like to help you in any way I can! I no long...
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Cisco buffer overflow vulnerability with remote code execution - silenteh https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160210-asa-ike ====== silenteh Here a nice explanation of the vulnerability: [https://blog.exodusintel.com/2016/02/10/firewall- hacking/](https://blog.exodusintel.c...
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Windows vs Unix system count. - arunagarwal Windows vs Unix system count. Just got in debate that around the world including PCs and Servers which operating system used most. Any ideas?? Any links?? ====== davidcollantes UNIX? What do you mean? I doubt this entry will go anywhere, but you might want to restate it. ...
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Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - evo_9 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/3314456/Surfer-dude-stuns-physicists-with-theory-of-everything.html ====== aphyr I don't want to flag this, per se, but readers should be aware that this particular article is rather old. The theory ...
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10 years later, Twitter still isn't making money - chirau http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/21/technology/twitter-10th-anniversary/ ====== atishay811 Twitter has been giving away more and more ground to Facebook. Facebook groups are not even suited for a lot of things that they have become and twitter should have been ther...
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Evidence mounts that gut bacteria can influence mood, prevent depression - Aegaeus10111 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/evidence-mounts-gut-bacteria-can-influence-mood-prevent-depression ====== perilunar "Two kinds of microbes, Coprococcus and Dialister, were missing from the microbiomes of the depressed subje...
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Tom Gonser looks to find the next “market-bending unicorn” - jkujawski http://www.geekwire.com/2016/tom-gosner/ ====== yurek123 How many unicorns are there already? ------ kokomo6 do IBM, HP, Apple and likes count?
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Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day - ssclafani http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/17/dropbox-hits-25-millions-users-200-million-files-per-day/ ====== brlewis Thanks to Dropbox my photo sharing site has the world's best uploader. (1) Since it's an ordinary folder, all photo management software (iPhoto...
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Lyft moves San Francisco IPO roadshow as drivers protest - anigbrowl https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-25/lyft-moves-san-francisco-ipo-roadshow-as-local-drivers-protest ====== ummonk I'm not sure it's possible for ridesharing to be adopted en masse by consumers at a price point that would provide healthy...
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Ask HN: How does your web app handle public facing pages? - wallawe There are two main schools of thought I&#x27;ve seen on this:<p>1) Use Wordpress. Have the web app on a subdomain, for example app.example.com and any public facing pages on example.com, and use a CMS like Wordpress serve up any external&#x2F;public p...
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How to build WordPress plugins with Vue.js (with hot reload) - robert197 https://medium.com/@devs_group/wordpress-vue-js-with-webpack-and-hot-reload-7c4faea9d0d9 ====== robert197 Awesome!
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Credit Karma Launches Free Credit Monitoring, Enrolls 100,000 Users In A Day - FluidDjango http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/credit-karma-launches-free-credit-monitoring-enrolls-100000-users-in-a-day/ ====== citricsquid > Within the first day of its existence (the option became available just > yesterday), the company ...
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The Little Coder's Predicament - bootload http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theLittleCodersPredicament.html ====== optimal This is an old article, but in my opinion kids today have the same opportunity to learn programming, only now it's not tied to a particular hardware platform or operating system--it's the Web...
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Google Does Away With “Sponsored Links” Label, Now Ads Are Labeled “Ads” - ssclafani http://searchengineland.com/google-does-away-with-sponsored-links-label-now-ads-are-labeled-ads-54956 ====== benjoffe I like "Ads" much better, it conveys the same information more succinctly, and without the cheesy euphemism.
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Ask HN: What to do when your side-project takes off? - amerf1 Very curious to know how things change when you have hyper growth. How do you deal with priorities? Do you reach out to get seed-funding? Who do you speak to? Do you sell?<p>I am asking because I read a lot of stories of people getting #1 on HN or PH and su...
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Ask HN: What are the best Linux-based laptops? - sadanapalli Who has the best Linux laptop - System76 or ZaReason or Dell or anyone else? ====== fingerprinter I've stuck to ThinkPads. They are great....or were great. They recently changed the keyboard (bad) and also got rid of the physical mouse buttons (NOOOOOO! B...
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RapidShare will delete free users' data over 5GB tonight - sp332 https://rapidshare.com/#help_faq ====== tomku It's important to remember that the business model of file locker sites like RapidShare and Mega is to convince you to upload your files to their site so that they can monetize access to them. Your access a...
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PeerTube - Decentralized, Free, Ad-Free Video Hosting - peter_d_sherman https://joinpeertube.org ====== soared I do not understand this idea of replacing social media sites with open software but then exposing/forcing users to choose an instance. Unless you're strictly trying to make your social media site for devs th...
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‘X’ Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto’s Icy Plains - japaget http://www.nasa.gov/feature/x-marks-a-curious-corner-on-pluto-s-icy-plains ====== ChuckMcM Reminding us once again how cool it would be if we could "easily" send robotic probes to go and stay on various solar system "places of interest." Something I hope that...
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Facebook bug policy: Stick head in sand - stickfigure http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11754 ====== stickfigure Anyone else notice that even the clearest, most obvious bugs logged at the platform bug tracker tend to be closed out of hat, then moved to WISHLIST after you reopen them? This feels a ...
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The Truth About Building With Glass - jamesbritt http://www.fastcodesign.com/3031286/on-the-willis-tower-the-truth-about-building-with-glass ====== iancarroll I was with a tour group right before this happened. The group of people is blaming me as I made a show of jumping on it to prove its integrity. Hopefully I didn...
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HeyZap (YC S09) Launches Microtransaction Platform - judegomila http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/25/flash-gaming-payments-heat-up-heyzap-launches-microtransaction-platform/ ====== tybris At some point someone's going to set-up a succesful virtual currency exchange and the government is going to step in for creating...
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Advice to advisers: Stop being so nice. - jaf12duke http://www.humbledmba.com/advice-to-advisers-stop-being-so-nice ====== jseliger This post reminds me of a favorite passage from _Lord of the Rings_ , when Frodo is debating whether he should wait for Gandalf in the Shire, or press on: _“… The choice is yours: to ...
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If you were as rich as Bruce Wayne, what would be your secret dream project? - jaylin Maybe more realistic to ask: Hackers, if you won the $600M Mega Million jackpot, what would you hack after that? ====== killerbat00 Definitely the hologram like HUD/interactive display that Tony Stark has. I'd spend most of the mon...
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Why I Won't Use Rimuhosting - joao http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rimuhosting ====== SwellJoe Several of our customers are hosted with Rimuhosting, and we've interacted with them on a number of occasions because of that. In my experience they are very responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful. That's not to say this isn't...
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Porn Sites Feel Exposed by Flash, Get It on with HTML5 - nzp https://motherboard.vice.com/read/porn-sites-feel-exposed-by-flash-get-it-on-with-html5 ====== tekheletknight You can always trust Vice to keep this industry covered.
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“How News Feed Works” Nothing New, but It's Important - willianfaraujo http://firedoglake.com/2015/03/26/facebook-to-use-metadata-from-chats-to-alter-news-feed/ ====== sgwealti I wish I could get a reverse chronological list of news of everyone I am connected to on Facebook that I haven't unfollowed.
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Zynga Tried To Kill A Cute iOS Game One Ex-OMGPOP Dev Made For His Wife [Evil] - coloradogiant http://www.cultofmac.com/156508/zynga-tried-to-kill-a-cute-ios-game-one-ex-omgpop-dev-made-for-his-wife-evil/ ====== asmosoinio No they did not: [http://gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga_Why...](http://gama...
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Do we really live longer than our ancestors? - sea6ear http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity ====== apo _Our maximum lifespan may not have changed much, if at all. But that’s not to delegitimise the extraordinary advances of the last few decades which have...
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Amazon drops gendered categories for toys - DiabloD3 http://kottke.org/15/05/amazon-drops-gendered-categories-for-toys ====== cristianpascu There is significant scientific evidence for differences between men and women, both psychologically and physiologically. For one, if I may, mental illness strikes differently in ...
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TetrisRant (1999) - farazzz https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris ====== lubujackson Love the "crashing game is a secret not a bug" solution at the end too! ~~~ Crinus Yeah i remember reading something similar about a DOS game where the game was crashing when you exited and the developers hexedited the DOS extender to repl...
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Ask HN: Common for startup winding down to not even refund stock options money? - simonebrunozzi ====== troydavis By “stock options money,” do you mean the price you paid to exercise options? If so, then yes, it’s totally normal. No bankrupt company would pay out money to shareholders. The point of exercising options i...
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Show HN: Dedesign the Web 2 – Guess the website based on its wireframe - kevinyun http://dedesigntheweb.com ====== oliv__ The placeholder hints at a name.something format so why is facebook.com incorrect? Also, after guessing Medium correctly, it seemed as though the image was out of sync with the input as it flashed ...
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Writing an Nginx authentication module in Lua and Go - StavrosK http://www.stavros.io/posts/writing-an-nginx-authentication-module-in-lua/ ====== daurnimator Lua string comparison IS constant time (its always just a pointer comparison). The timing attack (i.e. memcmp) would happen at the string interning step; whic...
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Ask HN: How do I grow my startup? - cassim89 I have launched Indiebookish.com a few weeks ago and battled to get any customers to subscribe. After a few days, I dropped the pricing by &gt;50% and still had no success. I am now offering my debut release as a free option to build a database of users that I could potenti...
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New blockchain-based music streaming service Audius is a copyright nightmare - thecroutonator https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20905384/audius-blockchain-music-streaming-service-copyright-infringement-piracy ====== madmaniak Copyrights is a nightmare itself. Right?
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Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone game aged 77 - dejv http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Gelex/feature.asp?c=15588 ====== cesare Very original marketing gimmick. Edit: as if it wasn't obvious enough, check the hands in this video: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZATuhCoJLc> Of course a story ...
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Tech entrepreneurs’ politics: Liberal, with one big exception - gnicholas https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/silicon-valley-politics.html ====== walshemj Far left no 80% of sv employees would be described as centre right (probably more socially liberal) in uk terms a wet one nation tory which is what pres O...
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Ecology and Economics for Pandemic Prevention - sradman https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2020/07/to-prevent-pandemics-invest-in-conservation ====== sradman Paper by Peter Daszak et al: [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6502/379](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6502/379)
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The Disturbing Secret Behind the World’s Most Expensive Coffee (2016) - kimsk112 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/04/160429-kopi-luwak-captive-civet-coffee-Indonesia/ ====== aphextim Answer: It's not exactly vegan friendly.
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