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The Average American Man's Body - r0h1n http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/this-is-the-average-mans-body/280194/ ====== DanBC The worrying thing about this is the shift in perception. Most people are going to put Todd at "a bit over weight", but not "near obese". Add a few kilos to Todd to tip him in...
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Nokia Reveals iPhone Competitor And Prepares To Do Battle With iTunes - qhoxie http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nokia_reveals_iphone_competitor_battles_itunes.php ====== mickt About time Nokia! However, it would be nice to see some Specs for the phone, how the UI works, and what this means for developers who wan...
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AllNurses.com founder kills family and himself - bruceb http://www.startribune.com/investigation-continues-into-deaths-of-greenwood-family/326692481/ ====== qCOVET This is really sad. Here is an article for Startup founders and how to cope w/ stress and protect their mental health: [http://www.techrepublic.com/article...
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A few questions about startups. - foof ====== foof Its often said that the startups are successful, especially by the venture capitalist firms who fund these startups. It is hard to say, what is intention behind the claim of saying most of the startups as successful, because as far as we could find on the internet ...
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Lockerbie bomber conviction 'may have been miscarriage of justice' - vanusa https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/11/lockerbie-bomber-conviction-may-have-been-miscarriage-of-justice ====== duxup >failure of the crown to disclose evidence, which could have been key to the defence and interfered with the right of...
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Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well - cinntaile https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epicgames.fortnite&hl=en_US ====== blunte Good. The sooner a big well-funded company hits this duopoly wall, the better. They will have the resources to fight this, and the outcome will hopeful...
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Reading disks from 1988 in 2018 - Doubleguitars https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/01/reading-disks-from-1988-in-2018/ ====== phs318u For me the interesting part of this article was the author discovering that he barely recognised his old self. I wonder how common this is? When I reflect on myself, I have a notion that t...
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Need Advice: Quitting Job to Learn to Code... (and start my business) - jaypreneur Hey everyone.<p>So, I've been contemplating this for a while and really need some advice. I'll try to be brief, but I apologize if I drag this on.<p>I work full time at a job I hate. Although it pays pretty well... I work until 9+ PM ...
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Show HN: Introducing Glitch Playground (beta) - ahmed-taj https://dev.to/ahmedtaj/introducing-glitch-playground--69k ====== ahmed-taj This project is NOT affiliated with, funded, or in any way associated with [https://glitch.com](https://glitch.com) ------ fiatjaf Is this related to glitch.com? ~~~ ahmed-taj No it's...
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Ash HN: What are some cool JavaScript projects that would impress kids (7-12yrs) - rorykoehler ====== detaro graphics stuff is always nice: take a webcam picture and make "instagram" filters for it, 3D stuff, voxel-style graphics (Minecraft!), ... ------ logiczero phaser.io
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Anywhere but Medium - minimaxir http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/20/0900.html ====== notacoward He never seems to identify anything actually wrong with Medium except that it's popular already. People _might_ be disinclined to write anything critical of Medium on Medium itself? Weak sauce. It comes...
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How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small - rspivak https://unstoppable.me/accomplish-big-things/ ====== ambivalents Has anyone else given up TV and noticed beneficial effects? "I replaced all TV time with reading time. TV is full of stories of murder, betrayal, and pain. It’s riveting, but it also messe...
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Reddit's /r/forhire debates allowing jobs that pay only in Dogecoin - drewvolpe http://www.reddit.com/r/forhire/comments/213wy6/mod_post_do_you_want_jobs_that_pay_only_in/ ====== thesausageking Interesting reading the comments. You see the three big reactions people have to crypto-currencies: some people get riled u...
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Self-driving cars are getting into accidents in California - bko http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-self-driving-accidents-20150512-story.html#page=1 ====== wimagguc > But the cars, three owned by Google and one by Delphi, were in collisions > caused by human error. Also, these are rather amazing stats actually....
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Intro to statistical data analysis in Python – frequentist and Bayesian methods - sebg http://ipython-books.github.io/featured-07/ ====== icki I also recommend Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers [http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/minrk/Probabilistic- Progr...](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/...
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Show HN: Smarter Way to Compare Phones/Tablets - mohit_agg http://photab.com ====== danso Is there anything more than a LaunchRock page yet? ~~~ mohit_agg currently building it. have got basic functionality going but need to work on UI.
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What visa type do you need, exactly, to legally participate in Y Combinator? - dotBen http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2012/02/what-visa-type-do-you-need-exactly-to-legally-participate-in-y-combinator/ ====== dotBen This is basically my response to the "My US border entry nightmare" YC post earlier in the day (<http://news...
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Haskell in the Real World - building real time finance systems for profit - dons http://www.starling-software.com/misc/icfp-2009-cjs.pdf ====== smokinn Here's a link to the PDF where you can actually use your mouse wheel to scroll: <http://www.starling-software.com/misc/icfp-2009-cjs.pdf> ~~~ mncaudill All PDFs t...
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Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows - rhabarba https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/ ====== userbinator No mention of MS-DOS EDIT which came with Win95 and AFAIK is still there in Windows 10 (32-bit version only)? That would probably be the editor I've used the longe...
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Hacking... trees? - DanLivesHere http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=d747c1d468&e=df8918339e ====== mapleoin And here's the wikipedia article that this was taken from: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping> ~~~ DanLivesHere I actually relied a lot more on the Gilroy Gardens' website...
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Show HN: Hacker Uses This - aartur https://hackerusesthis.com/ ====== JoshTriplett Interesting. What algorithm is this using to make recommendations? If you're not already, you should consider an algorithm that places less weight on more commonly used tools; right now, a huge number of people add "git", for instanc...
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Turnbull uncoops 'electronic pigeon hole' for all Australians - pwg http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/397526/turnbull_uncoops_electronic_pigeon_hole_all_australians_/ ====== iwwr This creates a lot of possibilities for data breaches, especially with a single database. Maybe it would work better with 2-factor ...
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Ask HN: Why is down voting disabled on some submissions? - jug6ernaut As title says, down voting is disabled on some submissions. For example the recent SpaceX Thread [1].<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8071070 ====== sp332 If the comment is over 1 day old, you can't downvote it anymore. S...
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NixOS: A lasting impression - Jeaye https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/07/30/nixos-revisited/ ====== Jeaye Relevant /r/NixOS post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/6qk0zq/nixos_a_lasti...](https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/6qk0zq/nixos_a_lasting_impression/)
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The Donut Hustle - zavulon http://www.theplayerstribune.com/arron-afflalo-knicks-kendrick-lamar/ ====== timbrah The song "Black Boy Fly" on Kendrick's Good Kid Maad City talks about how he was jealous of Afflalo. [https://youtu.be/BPAxrGT2emw](https://youtu.be/BPAxrGT2emw) ------ bluedino I paid for my first PowerBo...
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Lisp-based OSes - fogus http://linuxfinances.info/info/lisposes.html ====== rst The Unix-style process model has virtues that the OP doesn't seem to grok. It's sometimes helpful to be able to restart one server from a completely clean memory image without taking the rest of the system down. Beyond that: the OP sez th...
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QuorraJS - impostervt https://quorrajs.org/ ====== afloatboat Laravel seems to be a popular framework for inspiration. AdonisJS[1] has the same idea and has been posted to HN a couple of times before. I really like the simplicity of AdonisJS and QuorraJS, but I can't justify investing in investing in a framework with...
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S4 - Super Simple Storage Service. Read Only Cloud Storge - iamelgringo http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ ====== dxjones ha ha, I thought April Fool's was a coupla weeks ago
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Semantic Import Versioning - SamWhited https://research.swtch.com/vgo-import ====== calcifer From the "Avoiding Singleton Problems" section: > Another problem would be if there were two HTTP stacks in the program. > Clearly only one HTTP stack can listen on port 80; we wouldn't want half the > program registering han...
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Container Runtime Interface (CRI) in Kubernetes - philips http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/container-runtime-interface-cri-in-kubernetes.html ====== vidarh I can't get over how much of a smell the requirement of an RPC interface in order to interface with tools that may or may not have any good reason to be running o...
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Ask HN: For a new iOS app, sole proprietor or corp dev account? - relaunched I haven&#x27;t setup a new corp yet, so I was thinking sole proprietor (after all, the venture might go nowhere). But, if it goes somewhere, are there things that will prevent me from changing accounts later or that will cause unnecessary p...
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MIT Challenge - ph0rque http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/ ====== vonsydov How old are you ? I def feel much more smarter than I was when I was in school--in terms of solving problems. I think for a large part you just become more creative as you age and you're able to cut through the jargon and simplify ...
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Predict diapers that your child needs - anacleto http://nappee.com/ ====== cahlansharp Although the homonym "nappy" is unfortunate, I can see my family using this. Here's to hoping it delivers on its promise.
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Debugging Serverless Apps: from monitoring invocations to observing systems - n0debotanist https://read.iopipe.com/debugging-serverless-apps-from-monitoring-invocations-to-observing-a-system-of-functions-578c2ef8b3de ====== jgrahamc We've recently been publishing a lot of information about Cloudflare's serverless plat...
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Why Positive Thinking is Bad For You - cwan http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creativity-and-personal-mastery/201004/why-positive-thinking-is-bad-you ====== s2r2 [http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_C...](http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QC- THINKPOS&C...
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How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neighborhood - rockdiesel http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/what-works-cincinnati-ohio-over-the-rhine-crime-neighborhood-turnaround-city-urban-revitalization-213969 ====== llamataboot I grew up in Cincinnati and grew up with current staff members of both...
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What is a good file manager for Linux? - yapcguy http://xmodulo.com/2013/10/good-file-manager-linux.html ====== forktheif I wouldn't call PCManFM a "good" file manager. It's one of the consistently buggiest pieces of software I've used. Not major show stopping bugs, just a constant stream of minor problems every day...
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Ask HN: Why don't more apps use OTP as the first factor? - theschmed Hi,<p>Is there a reason besides inertia why most applications that require authentication use a secret like a password for the primary factor, rather than using a OTP app?<p>For context about me: I am pretty new to programming, learning web applicati...
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Chinese toddler disables mom's iPhone for 47 years - DyslexicAtheist https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/06/chinese-toddler-disables-moms-iphone-for-47-years.html ====== sh4z How does this work? Can I try to enter a code unlimited amount of times, and then once I stop it adds all the failed attempts up? Great brute force def...
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The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth - prostoalex https://theconversation.com/the-real-you-is-a-myth-we-constantly-create-false-memories-to-achieve-the-identity-we-want-103253 ====== hrnnnnnn This sounds like the idea of "no-self" from Buddhism. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta) ~~~ he...
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New cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition - mhb https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/10/31/long-awaited-cystic-fibrosis-drug-could-turn-deadly-disease-into-manageable-condition/ ====== m-p-3 I'd add the drug name (Trikafta) in the title, in case someone is wondering or try to...
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Commitment - Icylicious http://icylicious.herokuapp.com/commitment ====== toutouastro I am 17 and had a lot of problems because of programming.I studied at this prestigious school got kicked out because of my grades.I was learning python and didn't care about school but I never regretted it
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Google’s next advance will be hard fought - stevewillensky http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/googles-next-advance-will-be-hard-fought/article4367486/ ====== jaywalker Google is a company which is not short-sighted at all. I recently shared a story about Google's chairman's mysterious visit to Pakista...
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Thousands of GitHub projects need contribution – Cadeify - srajbr http://www.srb.madroids.com/cadeify-a-github-discovery-project/ ====== srajbr Cadeify [http://cadeify.madroids.com/](http://cadeify.madroids.com/)
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Google's Colossus Makes Search Real-Time By Dumping MapReduce - brown9-2 http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/9/11/googles-colossus-makes-search-real-time-by-dumping-mapreduce.html ====== stingraycharles I don't get it. They were using Map/Reduce as a way to build the index, which they were able to query in mere mil...
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Ask YC: What's your Advice on Performing Market Analysis for a Startup? - iamdave I'm in some early stages of a startup concept, and part of the conceptualization involves some pretty intense and detailed market analysis. I would need to contact various hosting vendors and dedicated server individuals and gather info...
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Ask HN: What do I need to know about Heroku to launch my app? - guynamedloren I have been developing my first rails application using free server space from Heroku. Now that I am pondering going live (a small private beta), I'm assuming that I'll have to move beyond the free space I've been developing with. The pr...
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Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email - jokoha https://tutanota.de ====== mike-cardwell Loads external images. By Default. With no option to turn off. Not a viable webmail client for anyone who expects privacy. [edit] The email that it sends to external addresses does not have a text/plain part, only ...
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Damning verdict on doctor who linked vaccine and autism - prat http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18447 ====== timclark The true scandal was the championing of the original story by the UK and worldwide media. If it had been reported responsibly and not sensationalised hardly anyone would have heard about the s...
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Planetonline.net out of business? - jusob http://www.planetonline.net/ ====== jusob I have .mn site registered with them. Either they forgot to renew their domain name, or they are out of business. Twitter and Google do not have any info on this. Is it possible to transfer a domain name to a new registrar if the cu...
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The Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers - coloneltcb http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-screensavers#b8-2 ====== M4v3R My favorite so far is New York City at night, GTA 2 style [0]. [0] [http://a1.v2.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/us/r1000/000/Fea...](http://a1.v2.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite....
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2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS 13 - dsego https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/07/19/ditching-windows-2-weeks-with-ubuntu-linux-on-the-dell-xps-13/#f69c98d18363 ====== oddity On the desktop, I've had an extremely positive experience using Ubuntu for the past few years. Honestly, at this point I ...
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Show HN: Mailtrigger, web endpoints that trigger an email notification - Lukas_Skywalker https://mailtrigger.io/ ====== Lukas_Skywalker In order to finally advance my knowledge in Elixir and Phoenix, I decided to create this project today. You can basically register web endpoints that trigger an email notification whe...
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Elon Musk provides $423K to buy laptops for all Flint middle schoolers - danso https://www.mlive.com//news/flint/2018/12/elon-musk-provides-423k-to-buy-laptops-for-all-flint-middle-schoolers.html ====== ddingus Awesome, but the water is still a mess. I am not putting that on Elon. He is just enabling damaged kids. Ri...
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Google Private Key Compromise - andygambles https://twitter.com/ecctls/status/980607899188842496 ====== andygambles It isn’t real [https://medium.com/@ECCTLS/how-to-sign-with-googles- private-...](https://medium.com/@ECCTLS/how-to-sign-with-googles-private- key-5b8e99abcdb3)
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On “Hacking” Y Combinator Interviews and Successful Startups - timr https://tyler.menez.es/articles/on-hacking-y-combinator-interviews-and-successful-startups.html ====== t0nyh0 I have strong reservations against the word "hacking" in of itself. From an engineering perspective, "hacking" is a quick-n-dirty fix, like "...
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We should stop running away from radiation - brndnhy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12860842 ====== callmevlad Having grown up in Russia and personally being in contact with a few people affected by the Chernobyl fallout, it's a bit hard to take someone who tries to diminish the impact of that accident to this degr...
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Ask HN: How do I build an online community in general? - m33k44 Assuming the online participants are from all walks of life, not from a specific community, age group, gender or interest. ====== eggsAndBacon Bring up topics and resolutions, to problems they care about, that are well thought out and meaningful. “Rememb...
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3 Simple Steps to Being Lucky - epi0Bauqu http://blog.stevebarsh.com/barsh_bits/2009/01/3-simple-steps-to-being-lucky.html ====== noodle imo, its all about gathering your ingredients and waiting until the right time. its not worth heavily stressing about location, because location and ingredients are connected. you mo...
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Emacs Lisp's Future - rutenspitz https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-09/msg00434.html ====== mark_l_watson If it isn't broken, don't try to fix it. I am an old guy (professional Lisp developer since about 1981) and my age probably affects my opinion: It would be a disaster to mess up the Emacs ecosys...
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Continue, pivot or quit? - misterparker I designed and built Lemonade - http://getlemonade.com - end of last year. Wondering if it's worth continuing to work on it, alter strategy on it, or just drop it? Looking for some honest feedback and opinions from the community. ====== danso The site appears to be down? ~~~ ...
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Yash: Posix-compliant shell with fish-style predictive completion and more - codesections https://yash.osdn.jp/index.html.en ====== codesections From the project website: > Yash is intended to be the most POSIX-compliant shell in the world while > supporting features for daily interactive and scripting use. Notable >...
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Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate - paulpauper https://www.revealnews.org/article/unmasking-the-secret-landlords-buying-up-america/ ====== threatofrain > All-cash transactions have come to account for a quarter of all residential > real estate purchases, “totaling hundreds of billions of dollars > ...
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Android 6.0.1 (CM13) on Microsoft Lumia 525 - thewisenerd http://forum.xda-developers.com/windows-phone-8/development/android-6-0-1-cm13-lumia-525-t3442630 ====== kchoudhu Is this as a result of the golden key attack[1] from a few days ago? [1] Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12259911](http...
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How Seamless, Grubhub, and Yelp are Defrauding us - k__ https://mobile.twitter.com/chezpim/status/1221327600284397569 ====== setr The title is .. not great. They're listing restaurants without the restaurant's knowledge, and in this case can never actually fulfill the request (because the restaurant doesn't even do ta...
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Ask HN: App developers, did you hire a graphic designer? - submachine For those of you developed a mobile application and released it, did you hire a graphic designer? If not, were you able to make an aesthetically pleasing UI without one? I am working on a side project and would possibly like to release the app, bu...
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Ask HN: Are there any other CPU designers here? - hnu0847 Are there any other CPU designers here? If so, I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on the industry. I’ve been working as a CPU designer for several years and as I’ve watched the growth of the tech sector during this time, I can’t help but wonder if I should sw...
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Why some people excel and others do not - Mindset, believe in your own potential - sergiutruta http://www.sergiutruta.com/2007/05/03/why-some-people-excel-and-others-don%e2%80%99t-mindset-believe-in-your-own-potential/ ====== whacked_new I like the general attitude of your article, but I'm not too fond of the certain...
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CPU feature flags and their meanings - NginUS http://blog.incase.de/index.php/cpu-feature-flags-and-their-meanings/ Not quite Black Viper, but a start. ====== ikbear Cool!
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Meditation For A Stronger Brain - jamesbritt http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129324779 ====== srwh mmm-mm
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Did the Guardian use Twitter as a weapon of free speech? - StevenHodson http://www.inquisitr.com/42350/did-the-guardian-use-twitter-as-a-weapon-of-free-speech/ ====== mooism2 "Even back in the _18th century_ the question about freedom of speech and the citizen’s right to know what was happening in the halls of its p...
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Ask HN: Ideas on getting inflatable rafts for flood rescue - bjacobt My home state in India is experiencing its worst flooding in 100 years [1]. While there are rescue efforts going on; there are small groups of people who are stranded in the second floor of their house in sparsely populated areas.<p>As the rain conti...
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How to make a site really freaking fast - portentint http://www.portent.com/blog/design-dev/how-we-made-portent-com-really-freaking-fast.htm ====== irahul I don't know. The landing page <http://www.portent.com/> is painfully slow for me. The optimization listed are mostly frontend optimization. The first thing I wou...
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Web.go: the easiest way to create web applications in Go - henning http://www.getwebgo.com/ ====== grok2 Doesn't it make sense to have a built in web-server for a Go framework (since it seems like a language well-suited to creating server type software) rather than have an external web-server like Apache? Just think...
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Army Uniform Policy [pdf] - maxwell http://www.armyg1.army.mil/hr/uniform/docs/uniform/faq.pdf ====== spacecowboy_lon Rather boggled that they have regulations for umbrellas
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The Big Alien Theory - miralabs http://www.thebigalientheory.com/ ====== TheOtherHobbes >No matter what degree of variability is chosen, alien planets are very unlikely to be much larger than the Earth. To be specific, we can say with 95% confidence that another planet with intelligent life, such as our nearest neighb...
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5 Days of find: The Basics of find - aweber http://bashshell.net/utilities/find-basics/ ====== tspiteri Looking for files in the article is completely broken. To look for a file named syslog.conf, you need to say find -name syslog.conf otherwise find will not look for that filename in all su...
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WebFWD: Innovation Accelerator from Mozilla - anant http://webfwd.org/ ====== ZackOfAllTrades Stark contrast to startup accelerators/incubators: Everything must be triple-y open sourced. Profiting from the idea is fine but not required (or even heavily encouraged). No equity involved. Emphasis on technical mentorshi...
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MIA – Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo - sqreept The disco subfolder is no longer on Ubuntu&#x27;s server (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ubuntu.com&#x2F;ubuntu&#x2F;dists&#x2F;) causing apt to fail installing packages. ====== finchisko non LTS releases (19.04 is one) have only 9 months of support, so I guess this is expected. ~~~...
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Codesign.io is now #1 on ProductHunt - pavelk2 http://www.producthunt.com/tech/codesign-io ====== pavelk2 Codesign.io is a minimal project management tool for visual projects such as web-sites, logos, presentations, photos or anything else that can be viewed as an image. Codesign is a great tool for studios and agen...
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Science to stop age clock at 50 - suprgeek http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8314442.stm ====== trebor Most people can drive their cars for years and years, because they give it the right maintenance and fuel. But somehow, they give their bodies almost no care, terrible fuel, and expect equivalent mileage? There's n...
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Coronavirus: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive - notlukesky https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52060791 ====== dean177 “I’m shaking hands continuously. I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know. I cont...
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PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server from the point of view of a data analyst (2014) - insulanian https://www.pg-versus-ms.com/ ====== netcraft My previous job(s) were primarily MSSQL and I was excited to get to use PG in my current position. In general I agree with the premise of the article - for just about everything PG is be...
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Ask HN: What maths should I learn to have a solid basis for Machine Learning? - Jmoir I&#x27;m very interested in Machine Learning, especially when related to Natural Language Processing, such as comprehending stories.<p>I&#x27;m a complete beginner following along with dive into machine learning (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;han...
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As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned a Blind Eye - derchu https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/711779130/as-china-hacked-u-s-businesses-turned-a-blind-eye ====== watertom Forget about the hacking. U.S. business walked into China and handed over all of their technology and Intellectual Property, just to have it used agai...
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Introduction to the Mill CPU Programming Model - luu http://ootbcomp.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu-programming-model-2/ ====== TrainedMonkey Interesting, the architecture looks greatly simplified compared to even standard RISC (As opposed to lets say x86). Due to that simplification it will be power efficient...
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[Poll] What would you learn, and how much would you pay? - gmaster1440 http://iwanttolearn.heroku.com/ ====== sebg You should raise the price or multiply everything by a factor of at least 10 to 100. <http://teamtreehouse.com/> just raise 4.75million dollars around the sandbox you are playing in and they have 10k + ...
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So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich - davidchua https://twitter.com/dhh/status/436410949919313920 ====== JangoSteve Jim was an amazing guy, and I wish I had spent more time talking with him. There was a time several years ago when the Ruby community was very vibrant and energetic, and in ...
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How Not To Sell Out: Talk by Matt Haughey of MeFi on growing a site into a small business - halo http://metatalk.metafilter.com/16577/How-Not-To-Sell-Out ====== halo I think this is a good antithesis to some the hype that you read about growing a big business on the "next big thing", people taking millions from vent...
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The rise of LinkedIn’s news feed - japhyr http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/15/the-rise-of-linkedins-news-feed-and-how-twitter-made-a-big-dumb-mistake/ ====== arturadib > "Feeds are now full of relevant engaging posts because LinkedIn user’s post > stuff they think will be relevant to their audience" My 200+ connectio...
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Google AU -- Dont stop me now - delinquentme http://www.google.com.au/ ====== derrida In case you are wondering, press 'play'.
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Daylighting Detroit's long buried rivers - rmason http://www.freep.com/article/20110509/BUSINESS04/105090350/Activists-Detroit-streams-once-turned-into-sewers-could-new-life ====== rmason Here's a map showing the locations of the rivers <http://www.freep.com/assets/freep/pdf/C417411359.PDF> I've walked the Bloody R...
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The Curse of Milk Sickness - samclemens https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2019/02/the-curse-of-milk-sickness-part-1-of-2.html ====== taneq Part 2: [https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2019/02/the-curse-of- milk...](https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2019/02/the-curse-of-milk- sickness-part-2-of-2.html) ------ alexand...
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Ask HN: Firms that both in US and London and do L-Visa transfers - s3nnyy I am a European citizen and I want to move to the US.<p>How to find startups &#x2F; firms that operate in London and US and are willing to do a L-visa transfer?<p>I know that Cloudflare offers this: If you start working for them, they promise ...
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FTC wants "Do Not Track" feature among wide-ranging online privacy changes - coondoggie http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ftc-wants-do-not-track-feature-among-wide-ran ====== russell This is one of those issues that the HN community needs to think about. The solution is not simple. A simple do-not-track op...
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Learning iOS development Swift or Obj-C? - Andrenid I&#x27;m keen to learn iOS development (just for fun&#x2F;curiosity), am I better off going the Obj-C or Swift path?<p>From a quick search Obj-C obviously has a lot more learning material and tutorials, but Swift seems like it&#x27;s going to be the &quot;future&qu...
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WakeMates are ready - spydertennis http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/12/18/wakemates-are-ready/ ====== jasonkester Look, I know it's Product Blogging 101, but it always amazes me when I see a product blog like this one that has: a.) No description of what the product _is_ b.) No direct link to the product website So no...
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Cost-Cutting in New York and London = A Boom in India - makimaki http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/business/worldbusiness/12indiawall.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss ====== sidsavara Wow 40% of jobs could be offshored? That surprises me. What is the 60% of jobs that requires a physical presence in wall street? ~~~ eugen...
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Disabling SSL renegotiation is a crutch, not a fix - bensummers http://blog.ivanristic.com/2010/10/disabling-ssl-renegotiation-is-a-crutch-not-a-fix.html ====== cperciva I disagree. SSL renegotiation is something which should never have existed in the first place. We'd be better off if the TLS working group had re...
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Warmest March in Global Recordkeeping - splawn https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/warmest-march-in-global-recordkeeping-2016-roars-ahead-of-pack ====== willholloway I've decided to become the guy that on every HN climate change post promotes the only technology that can restore the climate we had. There is...
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