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LambdaPi – a Lisp OS for Raspberry Pi - bsima https://gitorious.org/lambdapi ====== analog31 I got into computers and programming during the era when several of the more popular microcomputers booted up directly to the BASIC prompt. Perhaps out of nostalgia, I've always had an interest in little computers that blur th...
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The Orange Juice Test - dangrossman http://insideintercom.io/the-orange-juice-test/ ====== D-Train Interesting. This makes me think about the Airport Test as a former consultant. The Airport Test is whether or not you could spend a day (or however long) delayed at an airport with someone. It's more for recruiting. ...
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Frequent Twitter and Facebook Users: You Might Be Narcissists - julien421 http://mashable.com/2013/06/12/social-media-narcissism-study/ ====== enemtin You 'might' be? This is not new news. Of course frequent users are narcissists!
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Help with server logic for a multiplayer game server in GO/Unity - diericx I am trying to create a simple multiplayer server for a simple game using GO. I currently have it so that users can join, sign in, connect, and see other users. The issue I currently have is that moving around is very laggy because I send use...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer - chrisdinn http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-was-hacked-by-an-unemployed-web-developer/ ====== chrisacky Although this is blogspam, it's a blogspam that I can actually support... This i...
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Goby: Develop iOS apps with ClojureScript - hellofunk https://github.com/mfikes/goby ====== tblomseth Please note that the creator, @mfikes, as stated at the end of the readme has moved on to using React Native with ClojureScript + Om. I can attest to how his Ambly REPL in that mix is a winning combination having use...
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Google pulls gender pronouns from Gmail Smart Compose to reduce bias - Pharmakon https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/27/google-removes-gender-from-gmail-smart-compose/ ====== jakelazaroff There's another discussion here, albeit with a more sensationalist article (which seems to be the original source): [https://news.ycom...
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Ask HN: Have you ever “lost” a clever bit of code you weren't able to reproduce? - jarcane Discussing with a friend on Twitter I was reminded that as a lad I once wrote an AI routine for haggling with a shop owner in an RPG that remains probably the best implementation I&#x27;ve seen.<p>Unfortunately, my brother the...
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ASK HN:There are 3rd party application why not 4 or 5 or n party application. - niktrix there are 3rd party application why not 4 or 5 or n party application. ====== mooism2 _The_ 1st party is the platform vendor. So, Microsoft for PCs, Apple for Macs and iPhones, etc. _The_ 2nd party is the customer, either you o...
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Roll Your Own Synced iOS and Mac OS Diary Using Bash and Siri Shortcuts - nimvlaj30 https://github.com/luknuk/luknuk.github.io/blob/master/posts/2019-12-03_icloud-plaintext-journal.md ====== nimvlaj30 I am the author of the post. I hope it's clear what I'm trying to achieve here (a plaintext file that can be contribut...
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Proposal: Monotonic Elapsed Time Measurements in Go - Zikes https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12914-monotonic.md ====== jkn This a pretty magical solution. \- Backward compatible. No API change. \- Naive, idiomatic and wrong use of the API automatically becomes naive, idiomatic and correct: Exist...
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Ask HN: How do you communicate the gravity of tech debt to a new team? - Gabriel_Martin When joining a new team, upon finding loads of tech debt left by past developers, which nontechnical members of the company&#x27;s leadership are not aware of, what methods have you used to convey the scale of the issue (For exampl...
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Bazil – a file system that lets data reside where it is most convenient - Flenser http://bazil.org ====== kolev Source Code: [https://github.com/bazillion/bazil](https://github.com/bazillion/bazil)
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HMD’s revived Nokia 3310 classic mobile gets 3G - lnguyen https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/hmds-revived-nokia-3310-classic-mobile-gets-3g/ ====== digi_owl Put a simple wifi hotspot in there, and i would be really interested. Except that where i live they plan to phase out 3G but retain 2G, because the market has almo...
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New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators - longdefeat https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction ====== Deimorz Duplicate/blogspam of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163522](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163522)...
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Seven reasons why I'm not buying a Chromebook. - eroded http://dmurray.org/7-reasons-why-im-not-buying-a-chromebook ====== wanderr They should really call it a "mombook" because it's ideal for parents or grandparents who just want to get on the internet and have a computer that just works and is simple. Imagine sett...
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Show HN: HN Digest - mobilekid7 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.hn.digest ====== mobilekid7 Hello HNers! This is my first post and I'd like to share a little HN reader app I created for the community. HN has been my main source of tech news and the place to go when I need some inspiration for quite ...
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Large Scale NoSQL Database Migration Under Fire - kawera https://medium.com/appsflyer/large-scale-nosql-database-migration-under-fire-bf298c3c2e47 ====== SuddsMcDuff We've taken a very similar approach when migrating data from one DB to another (MySql to Redis in our case, but the principle should apply to any databas...
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Ask HN: What websites do you frequent? - buckwild The title says it all: "What websites do you guys like to frequent?" When I ask this I mean websites similar to HN, reddit, etc..<p>Please don't say google, twitter, or facebook. haha. ====== pclark Hacker News, oddly enough. ------ yan Google Reader ~~~ mdavis Fav...
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Offer HN: Get Equity in Our Startup If You Can Help Us Get Traction - mkinnan Like any start-up, it can be tough to get any significant traction. So, we are offering equity to someone that might have the resources/connections to help us get forum owners to add their forum to Agalanche, a forum aggregator. The equity...
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Stop Datamining Me - known https://www.stopdatamining.me/opt-out-list/ ====== corobo The absolute irony of this site's privacy policy. > Service Providers. We work with third parties who provide services including > but not limited to data analysis, order fulfillment, list enhancement and > other administrative servi...
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WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality - rhayabusa https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/wework-gets-a-visit-from-financial-reality ====== kgwgk [https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/wework...](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/wework- gets-less-money-shorter-na...
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Chrome: 50 releases and counting - rayshan https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/04/chrome-50-releases-and-counting.html ====== pfg Slightly OT: I wish more projects with a rapid release cycle would adopt CalVer (calendar-based versioning, like Ubuntu). I find they're much easier to parse for humans, and the semantics a...
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Ask HN: Programmatic Googling to Recreate xkcd results - mydpy I am trying to access Google search results programmatically.<p>For example, let&#x27;s say I wanted to recreate xkcd&#x27;s X Girls Y Cup results.<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;467&#x2F;<p>AFAIK, Randall entered these results manually &quot;X Girls Y...
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Ask HN: When does programming start to make sense? - amorphid How long did it take before you could write code on your own? Every time I try to learn programming, it feels painfully slow compared to other things I've picked up. Maybe I'm the opposite of a natural. I took C++ in college and studied Ruby &#38; PHP o...
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Apple Races to Keep Ahead of Rivals - physcab http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/technology/companies/05apple.html?_r=1&hp ====== JunkDNA I know this is going to make me sound like a fanboy, but I find the article title amusing. The idea that Apple is "racing" to keep ahead of rivals and feeling the heat is a bit sil...
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Hiawatha – A secure webserver for Unix - arm https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ ====== arm They have a login form here¹ that is vulnerable to an SQL injection, but Hiawatha apparently protects it. Anyone with more experience care to explain how? ―――――― ¹ — [http://sqli.hiawatha-webserver.org/](http://sqli.hiawatha-...
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Git is already federated and decentralized (2018) - dredmorbius https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/23/Git-is-already-distributed.html?rev=1 ====== dredmorbius Discussed extensively a year ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097439](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097439) Possibly worth a revisiting.
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Dropbox stopping Public folders on new accts after July 31st - pudquick Just received this email from them:<p>We wanted to let our developers know about an upcoming change to the Public folder for all user accounts. In April, we launched the ability to share any file or folder in your Dropbox with a simple link. Thi...
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Princeton Concludes Kind of Government America Has, and It's Not a Democracy - davedx http://mic.com/articles/87719/princeton-concludes-what-kind-of-government-america-really-has-and-it-s-not-a-democracy ====== officialjunk Doesn't having an electoral college, by definition, make the US not a democracy?
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Lenovo Statement on Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) BIOS - yuhong http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013 ====== chuckup I hope Roel Schouwenberg does a writeup about this. If you're wondering what this is about, see [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039870](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Railgun: a fast strstr(3)-like function - silentbicycle http://www.sanmayce.com/Railgun/index.html ====== StefanKarpinski Ugh. Licensed under "Code Project Open License": [http://www.codeproject.com/info/cpol10.aspx](http://www.codeproject.com/info/cpol10.aspx) Good luck figuring out what this is legal to use with...
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Ambient backscatter tech allows devices to communicate, sans batteries - bkudria http://www.gizmag.com/ambient-backscatter-unpowered-communication/28709/ ====== lutusp I wish technical writers would do historical research -- it would make their writing more interesting and educational. During the Cold War, the Russ...
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Mercury OS – A speculative vision of the operating system - davidbarker https://medium.com/@jasonyuan/introducing-mercury-os-f4de45a04289 ====== cfarm I think this would work for a lot of task related and basic work flows. How would you imagine this working for more complex flows like developers or engineering?
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Ask HN: Examples of applications built with Node.js? - PeterRosdahl It's hard to find any examples of applications built with Node.js. Do you have any examples on applications that are fully or partly built with Node.js? ====== jashkenas Here's a little Node.js/CoffeeScript application I worked on for a contest at a...
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Studios pushing earlier movie rentals amid growing pressures - JumpCrisscross http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-cinemacon-movie-windows-20170316-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam ====== andrewclunn All good news. Perhaps soon the theater will once again ...
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Ask HN: The Importance of a co-founder - p01nd3xt3r I have a startup that I have been working on for a while now and it's nearing completion. I have had several people that wanted to become involved but things did not work out due to lack of dedication and/or lack of knowledge.<p>When applying to YC would it be bet...
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.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public - mindfreeze https://icannwiki.org/.gay ====== tuxxy I preordered [https://areyou.gay](https://areyou.gay) a while ago. I don't know what to put on it, but I would like to host a FAQ or something for people who are questioning their sexuality and make it v w...
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Things that are illegal to build in most American cities now - oftenwrong https://twitter.com/CascadianSolo/status/1204306278173958145 ====== gerbilly >Bunkhouses/Roominghouses/SROs, I read somewhere that the lack of rooming-houses significantly contributes to homelessness. They fill a gap between an individual apar...
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World wide wasteland - igzebedze http://www.zemanta.com/blog/world-wide-wasteland/ ====== philiphodgen @Swizec, too bad your message was negated by the video pimping Zemanta at the end. Outbound links to cool stuff generated by a machine? That's exactly what you were mourning. Love cannot be automated. Certain batter...
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Sam Altman AMA on Whale Today - ranidu https://askwhale.com/add/sama ====== ranidu Head to [https://askwhale.com/add/sama](https://askwhale.com/add/sama) to watch all videos from Sam's AMA today on Whale
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I Declare Independence from Apple - paulsilver http://betanews.com/2012/07/04/i-declare-independence-from-apple/ ====== paulsilver An interesting take on where Apple's behaviour has taken a previous user of a lot of their products. However, I can't help feeling he'll be writing a similar article about Google in a y...
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Disco Project: Erlang and Python Mapreduce - rw http://www.discoproject.org/ ====== paulgb Has anyone used this? I'm interested in hearing how it compares to Hadoop streaming + Python (+ Dumbo?). ~~~ ryancox one thing to keep in mind: there is no distributed filesystem (HDFS in Hadoop's case). So depending on your ...
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The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment (2014) - aaronbrethorst https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-five-extra-words-that-can-fix-the-second-amendment/2014/04/11/f8a19578-b8fa-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html ====== mindcrime _Whether or not we can assert a plausible constitutional basis for in...
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12 Factor CLI Apps - dickeytk https://medium.com/@jdxcode/12-factor-cli-apps-dd3c227a0e46 ====== emmanueloga_ Don't get me wrong! I love command line apps. But I wonder if we all have a bit of an Stockholm syndrome... there are several things that suck about them... While writing this I'm thinking on my experience tr...
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High on business: Marijuanettes rapidly gaining popularity in the US - tbindi http://www.shoestring.com.au/2013/08/high-on-business-marijuanettes-rapidly-gaining-popularity-in-the-us/ ====== taproot Talks about misconceptions, insinuates smoking weed wont lead to lung cancer. Claims video seen by 8500 people means i...
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Boxopus lets you download torrents to Dropbox anonymously + w/o a Torrent client - kapkapkap http://torrentfreak.com/boxopus-downloads-torrents-to-dropbox-120623/ ====== petercooper This is relevant but forgetting torrenting for just a moment.. I believe Dropbox uses hashing to identify files in their system, since so...
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'UK the worst place to live in Europe' - newacc http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/UK-the-worst-place-to-live-in-Europe/articleshow/5125621.cms ====== jacquesm The real news from that is not how bad the UK did, but how well Poland did, ahead of Italy, Sweden, Ireland and the UK. That's quite amazing news.
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on a replacement for email? - snazz Email’s defining characteristic is how it’s decentralized—no single company has control over the protocol. This has been both a blessing and a curse, and for better or worse, email is mostly stuck in the 80s with a little bit of HTML sprinkled in.<p>I hear ...
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COVID19 reinfection by a phylogenetically distinct coronavirus strain confirmed - drocer88 https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1275/5897019 ====== salmon30salmon This is neither surprising nor concerning. It is exactly what you would expect from a coronavirus, remembering that a lot of wha...
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Ask HN: any beautiful website generation service? - tucson (inspired by earlier HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4131847)<p>I am looking for a way to generate ready-made websites for small businesses.<p>The demand is there. I have dozens of businesses contacting me every week for building websites.<p>I a...
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Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change - cing http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/05/1619003114.short ====== cing [http://streetchange.media.mit.edu/](http://streetchange.media.mit.edu/)
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Ask HN: Is there an rss feed for “Ask HN”? - rayalez ====== edoceo The RSS put out is only for the front page This site is making Atom based feeds available for HN [http://hnmob.com](http://hnmob.com) Disclaimer: I made it. ------ gregr401 Try: [https://news.ycombinator.com/rss](https://news.ycombinator.com/rss)...
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Screaming Fast Galois Field Arithmetic Using Intel SIMD Instructions (2013) - gbrown_ http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2013-GF.html ====== nkurz At a glance, this seems like a clear explanation of using standard SIMD instructions to solve the problem, but I think the landscape has changed since this wa...
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The best person who ever lived is an unknown Ukrainian man - niklasbuschmann https://boingboing.net/2015/07/30/the-best-person-who-ever-lived.html ====== eindiran Here is the guy in question: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zhdanov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zhdanov) He was a Soviet virologist that g...
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OS X Lion Bug: Safari guzzling massive amounts of RAM - shawndumas http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/27/os-x-lion-bug-safari-guzzling-massive-amounts-of-ram/ ====== jws The author's testing methodology appears unable to tell _leakage_ from _caching_. If your machine isn't swapping, then any unused memory is wasted. Better ...
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Why we gamble like monkeys - claypoolb http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150127-why-we-gamble-like-monkeys?utm_content=buffereb10c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== claypoolb I've been guilty of this time and time again... and not just at the casino! "Win on roulette and your chanc...
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Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to plain C - flexterra http://home.kpn.nl/pt.kleinhaneveld/carbon/about.html ====== shadowmint I wish projects like this wouldn't force you to install their libraries in order to play with them. Sure, it's just /usr/local, but @#$#@$@# it's annoying when you have ...
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So Busy at Work, No Time to Do the Job - jasoncartwright http://www.wsj.com/articles/so-busy-at-work-no-time-to-do-the-job-1467130588 ====== nibs How is it possible that "managers and knowledge workers now spend 90% to 95% of their time in meetings, on phone calls and emailing". Do we just have a shell economy where p...
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How to Implement Distributed Snapshots in Tera( Modeled After BigTable) - caijieming https://github.com/baidu/tera/pull/1115 ====== caijieming distributed snapshot algorithm inspired by [http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/lamport/pubs/c...](http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/lamport/pubs/chandy...
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The McGurk Effect - An Illusion you will never overcome. - BIackSwan http://hunch.com/item/hn_3697271/?mp_event=share_click&mp_extra=eyJzaGFyZV9zb3VyY2UiOiAic2hhcmVfdHdpdHRlciJ9 ====== iam Looks like he's biting his lip in the left video, but not in the right video. I thought it was supposed to be identical except f...
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America Averages a $47 Cellphone Bill? - codegeek http://www.cnbc.com/id/49431443 ====== amalag Can republic wireless execute on their plan for a $20 a month unlimited plan augmented by wifi? Or am I stuck with $75 a month for 2 feature phones. (I will not pay the exorbitant costs of a smart phone) ------ OldSchool...
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Anthem’s emergency room coverage denials draw scrutiny - arkades https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/anthem-emergency-room-coverage-denials-draw-scrutiny/sWT8ts3TYv6vNjrEN99kdO/ ====== arkades Traditionally, policy states that ER utilization is covered by a prudent layman's standard: if a reasonabl...
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After a Terrible 2019, Blizzard Is Going All-In at BlizzCon - partingshots https://kotaku.com/after-a-terrible-2019-blizzard-is-going-all-in-at-bliz-1839425018 ====== jammygit There is a lot of talk about protests at blizzcon. I hope the participants succeed and can keep the media’s attention on this issue, this has b...
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MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers - sswu https://www.3ders.org/articles/20181207-mit-team-develop-3d-printer-thats-10x-faster-than-comparable-3d-printers.html ====== slededit I wonder why they needed the laser pre-heater. I can't imagine it is that dramatically more effective t...
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The problem with ideas - comet http://startuppr.tumblr.com/post/19279011613/the-problem-with-ideas ====== padwiki Friendly tip. You might want to consider a font that has a little more weight to it. I had an extremely difficult time reading any of the text. Tried zooming in, moving to a different monitor, but eventu...
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Show HN: Net:SSH:CLI – A Gem to Work with CLI Sessions - faebi https://github.com/swisscom/net-ssh-cli ====== faebi I just wanted to share my simple gem I am using at work for a while now. Originally I was using a custom version of net-ssh-telnet for a long time. I use this gem to handle long-running SSH CLI Sessions ...
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Show HN: We decided not to apply to YC so we could try Kickstarter - iamjonlee Hey everyone! We spent the major part of the year preparing an idea we had for the YC application. At last minute, we decided not to go through with YC.<p>I mean, we've had our fair shares of failed startups and this was one of those make...
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Show HN: React Drag-N-Drop Email Editor - idrism https://github.com/unroll-io/react-email-editor ====== adeelraza Hey, developer of this React component here. I run several SaaS startups and we always wanted a good email editor that we can quickly embed in our applications. Couldn't find one that's free and solid so w...
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The Minnesota Starvation Experiment - elil17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment ====== Someone “The motivation of the study was twofold: first, to produce a definitive treatise on the subject of human starvation […] The study […] used 36 _men_ […] The subjects were all white males, with age...
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Israel military detects 6 blasts, each 11 seconds apart, before Beirut explosion - Khelavaster https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-seismology/seismic-data-suggests-string-of-blasts-preceded-beirut-explosion-israeli-analyst-idUSKCN2591S2 ====== fghorow Geophysicist here. These 11 second periodic ...
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Are You Living in a Fourth Amendment Exclusion Zone? - scotty79 http://www.storyleak.com/are-you-living-in-fourth-amendment-exclusion-zone/ ====== eli I think it's a story that deserves to be told, but this particular blog adds very little value over the source material the ACLU published in 2006-2008: [http://www.acl...
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Absorbing commit changes in Mercurial 4.8 - indygreg2 https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2018/11/05/absorbing-commit-changes-in-mercurial-4.8/ ====== asqueella I wanted to know if anything like this exists for git (apart from manually doing commit --fixup/rebase -i --autosquash) -- and a quick search found this: [https://g...
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Ask HN: Take me back to my post when I comment - dorfsmay When commenting on a comment in HN, it takes me back to the top of the comments, which means I now have to scroll all the way back to where I was. How difficult would it be to take me back to my comment or its parent? ====== brudgers The friction may be intenti...
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Ask HN: What is the best way to resolve storyboard (iOS) conflicts? - skyahead When a team of programmers working on a storyboard (managed by git), it is rather painful to merge changes. I know people are saying that using multiple storyboards can mitigate this problem.<p>I wonder if there is a better way? ====== eo...
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Multiple Cursors in 500 bytes of Vimscript - jstewartmobile http://www.kevinli.co/posts/2017-01-19-multiple-cursors-in-500-bytes-of-vimscript/ ====== jstewartmobile Still not quite as good as MC in Sublime, but pretty close.
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Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS - yarapavan https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/ ====== sirn Slightly unrelated, but since there seems to be some Google Cloud people in this thread: I see that Google Cloud account is linked to my Google Account. What happen to my Google ...
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How glow.mozilla.org gets its data - etaty http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2011/03/22/how-glow-mozilla-org-gets-its-data/ http://glow.mozilla.org/ ====== coderdude An interesting snippet from the Python backend: # We're not supposed to show downloads for these countries (607127#c10): # Cuba, Iran,...
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Ghost 1.0 - pieterhg https://blog.ghost.org/1-0/ ====== tbenst And, four years later, they still have not fulfilled their kickstarter promise of the Ghost Dashboard. This was the most requested feature on their public trello roadmap before the card was deleted one day. Over the years there have been many inconsistent ...
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Cards for Humanity: a fast-paced online game (built in Angular) - gdi2290 http://cfh.io/ ====== lquist I hope you guys have the rights for this...
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Schism: A library of CRDT implementations of Clojure’s core data types - tosh https://github.com/aredington/schism ====== hardwaresofton Once you get past all the complicated math (honestly being into Haskell has helped with this), CRDTs are actually very easy to understand, at least their semantics are. Here's are s...
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Perfectionism versus Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - DanBC https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-truisms-wellness/201612/perfectionism-vs-obsessive-compulsive-disorder ====== pkaye I got to admit an OCD/perfectionism trait (out of many I will not all list) I used to have when I was younger... I would install say an...
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How can I avoid a 404 for non-existent pages and serve a default page instead? - Corsterix Instead of returning a 404 error for a non-existent page I want nginx to serve a PHP script that returns some dynamically generated content and return a 200 as if the page existed normally, is this possible? ====== thedirt0115 H...
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Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football - huac http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2017/04/04/NFL-TNF.aspx ====== dmix I hope Amazon markets this properly. My GF and I both struggled to even find the [https://www.primevideo.com/](https://www.primevideo.com/) landing page after we sig...
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VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks - archon810 https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/7jMWV7oCQpn ====== cantlin At the Guardian we needed our own video player, because we couldn't rely on a third party platform not to take down something that we published. Editorial inde...
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What's wrong with centcom.mil's DNS records? - anigbrowl http://dnsviz.net/d/centcom.mil/dnssec/ ======
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A 1942 List of Hitler’s Lies (2016) - ericdanielski https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/a-list-of-hitlers-lies-compiled-by-the-office-of-war-information-in-1942.html ====== abrichr _> 1935_ _> May 21, Hitler speech to Reichstag:_ _> "Every war for the subjection or domination of an alien people sooner or late...
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Faigy Mayer has died - pallian https://twitter.com/search?q=%40FaigyM&src=typd&vertical=default ====== aaronchall This HN post is how I found out. She had been coming to the Python meetup group. We knew each other by name. I feel horrible. I know she was dealing with a lot from her background, but I thought she was ma...
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Ask HN: How to deal with domain squatters/resellers? - halfmatthalfcat I&#x27;m currently working on a project where the .com is owned by a domain reseller who has, in my opinion, an unrealistic valuation. I own the .io, so I&#x27;m not super concerned but it&#x27;s frustrating to negotiate when I feel like the resell...
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The retaliation begins: Google profiles get Schmidt-faced - fraqed http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57607238-71/the-retaliation-begins-google-profiles-get-schmidt-faced/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TechnicallyIncorrect ====== RexRollman This is funny but I expect will ultimately prove fruitless. Advertising companies like...
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Eric Cantor succumbs to tea party challenger Tuesday - opendais http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/eric-cantor-faces-tea-party-challenge-tuesday/2014/06/10/17da5d20-f092-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html ====== sp332 _a Cantor supporter shouted, “Get a job!”_ All you need to know about why Cantor...
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Australia’s Offshore Cruelty - jamesk_au http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/opinion/australias-offshore-cruelty.html ====== brc Australians will take lecture from the New York Times after The USA perfects its record. This article is full of bias-pushing, including the idea that what happens to the people on Nauru is m...
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Is it time to dump the iPhone and go Google? - cwan http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/01/my_fling_with_a_droid_is_it_finally_time_to_dump_the_iphone.html ====== wglb One of the better articles illustrating the differences between the iPhone and the Droid.
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Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study - lnguyen https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists-break-far-fewer-road-rules-than-motorists-finds-new-video-study/ ====== enjoyyourlife This is probably due to speed limits: "Separate studies by the Danish Road Directorate ...
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Show HN: Social Crawlytics API - ysekand https://socialcrawlytics.com/docs/api ====== ysekand So you know, the API was designed to be simple and easy to get started with. We try to accommodate the most used methods, though if there's something you feel should be added, please let us know! Our API is stateless, mea...
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How Satya Nadella revived Microsoft - ghosh http://www.afr.com/brand/boss/how-satya-nadella-revived-microsoft-in-just-three-years-20161220-gtf1i7?&utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nc&eid=socialn:twi-14omn0055-optim-nnn:nonpaid-27/06/2014-social_traffic-all-organicpost-nnn-afr-o&campaign_code=nocode&pr...
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Faust: Stream Processing for Python - ericliuche https://github.com/robinhood/faust ====== simonw > Faust is extremely easy to use [...] Faust only requires Kafka, the rest is > just Python Kafka is still a pretty chunky dependency. Have you thought about getting this to work with the new streams stuff in Redis? [ht...
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Hundreds of Thousands of Google Apps Domains’ Private WHOIS Leaked - larrys http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/whoisdisclosure ====== jewel I wonder if it's time to stop requiring address and phone number information in the WHOIS information. Unless registrars are required to verify it with a confirmation letter an...
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Ask HN: Has NLP Helped You? - praving5 I recently came across this book on shaping human behaviours - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nlpco.com&#x2F;nlp-the-essential-guide&#x2F;<p>This looks very fascinating to me and I want to dive deeper into it. I have 2 questions:<p>1) Has NLP helped you? If yes, how and if No, why not?<p>...
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Ask HN: My hours have been cut to 15h/wk. What to do with spare time with Corona - iskerson The cut was offered by my company as a way to scale down during the pandemic without cutting jobs and I took it. No big deal, it&#x27;s still enough money and that&#x27;s not the topic I want to discuss in this thread.<p>I&#x27...
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