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Need Moderators for the “C/C++ coding Best practices repository” - cppdesign http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=1856 ====== nkurz I think there are tremendous differences between C and C++ best practices. Are you really trying to create a single repository that covers both of them? _If you are a C++ expert and you ...
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Unix Windowing Terminal System Blit, 1982, Bell Labs - dryicerx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTL1abCm9I ====== daeken I've spent the last two days implementing VGA and basic graphics support in my OS, and it's great to watch this and see something I know I can implement in a short period of time with what I've al...
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Please check my quantum physics browser game for accuracy - sideshowb https://linkingideasblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/learning-quantum-mechanics-the-easy-way/ ====== evanb [1/4] Source: I am a nuclear physicist. Full disclosure: I didn't play. I'm not launching a Java applet. So I'm just reading your description fo...
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Show HN: Browsertime, bringing popcorntime to your browser with webtorrent - KeizerDev https://github.com/KeizerDev/Browsertime ====== chirau I have installed this, but it doesn't work, I can't play anything(there is no play option, its just a movie page with a description). I can't search for anything, there are no s...
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Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab - Farbodkhz https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/conspiracies-covid-19-lab-false-pandemic ====== GillBates666 [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr- Iug](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr-Iug) How does mainstream me...
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React Native ART and D3 - hswolff http://hswolff.com/blog/react-native-art-and-d3/ ====== harel I would really like to see a real world useful application done in react native. Nothing too arty, but more functional, business like even. Something that goes beyond an app for an event or an art project. ~~~ lewisl9029 T...
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Top darknet drug marketplace, Dream Market, is shutting down - biofunsf https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-dark-web-marketplace-will-shut-down-next-month/ ====== arthurcolle Another one bites the dust. Does anyone have any theories on the methodologies being used in these Operation Onymous/Bayonet/Shrouded Horizon to ...
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Everybody Dance Now: transfering motion between humans in different videos - hendzen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCBTZh41Ris ====== itsthisjustin This is mind blowing
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Ask HN: Secure estate planning - TallGuyShort I've been going through the process of setting up a will and related documents. The people to whom I am entrusting my children (and thus also my property) in the event of my death are not exactly cybersecurity experts, so I need to maintain a simple way for them to ac...
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BaconBizConf 2013: Bootstrapping Sketchnotes - joelhooks http://joelhooks.com/blog/2013/06/06/my-sketchnotes-and-thoughts-from-baconbizconf-2013/ ====== marcusneto Absolutely amazing. Love these. Even showed them to my oldest son as he likes to draw. ------ urlwolf Idea: a subreddit or subHN (if that existed) for b...
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Windows 8 for tablet hands on - mingyeow http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/13/windows-8-for-tablets-hands-on-preview/ ====== sriramk As someone who worked for MSFT for so long, this bit really makes me happy - mostly since no one would have given this much odds of happening. "With the introduction of OS X Lion, Appl...
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Noutube: the most recently uploaded video on YouTube, before filters applied - diabetesjones http://noutube.net ====== diabetesjones Pretty cool thing I made. Can be boring, if its lots of Russian kids vlogging, but it's the only way I've found to see something 0.1ms old and YouTube themselves haven't even auto-delete...
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Pandora Launches New Desktop App for Mac - bookofjoe https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/20/pandora-desktop-app-for-mac/ ====== chmielewski Best Mac client is TUI. brew install pianobar Uses your Pandora account, has all your saved channels, unlimited skips, no commercials.
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The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity - whocanfly http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/691462 ====== anonu I think we saw this on HN a few months back. Can't find the prior discussion. EDIT - Did a bit more searching: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14639967...
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Ask HN: Any speech segmentation API's out there? - shk88 I've been working on an idea for an MVP that leverages speech recognition, for which there are a few viable API's. However, I'm interested in not only speech to text, but also determining the timing of each spoken word relative to the input audio. Unfortunatel...
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Computer monitor causes scare at Newark airport - J3L2404 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/20/AR2010122001381.html ====== kgermino I understand that we need to be careful take precautions and all that but come-on we closed down an entire terminal because somebody shipped a computer monitor?...
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Online commenting cliché: "You realize that X = Y, right?" - dhruvtv Of late, I find this clichéd phrase &quot;You realize that X = Y (or some non-obvious statement which might not even be correct), right?&quot; appear in online comments a lot. I find it very toxic.<p>Example on HN:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hnsearch....
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The Worst Mistake People Make in Political Arguments - danielrm26 http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-worst-mistake-people-make-in-political-arguments ====== CWuestefeld Good advice across the board, not just for political discussion. This is just explaining the logical fallacy of "fundamental atribution error" (<http...
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Show HN: CodeAvengers, the future of K12 CompSci education is here - nkeung http://www.codeavengers.com/web ====== yjsoon Conceptually: I like the idea of giving some personality to the "type here and see something happen" code-learning toolkit, at least for the HTML/CSS course. Not sure how well this specific conce...
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Self-driving cars will push us to rethink how we build cities, say planners - edward http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/self-driving-cars-will-push-us-to-rethink-how-we-build-cities-say-planners/article27090747/ ====== hackuser If cars are driverless, I'm not sure why people in cities will want to own cars an...
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Is Your Brain Necessary? - ghgr https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116 ====== bloak It sounds like a hoax. If brains could be smaller, then heads could be smaller, and there ought to be some evolutionary pressure for that, in humans, at least: giving birth is not easy. I don't know about other animals. There is partic...
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How Devastating was the Black Death? - akakievich http://www.medievalhistories.com/devastating-black-death/ ====== goblin89 Actual paper is titled “Next-generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: Insights from the Black Death”. The gist is that we’ve been operat...
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Solar pond - ColinWright http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_pond ====== killahpriest If you're curious as to how the thermal energy is extracted: [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038092X10...](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038092X10002161) > Heat has generally been successfull...
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Network Solutions is now a Web.com Company - jedireza http://about.networksolutions.com/ ====== jedireza So Dan Grossman was nice enough to correct me on this. [http://www.networksolutions.com/blog/2011/10/network- solutio...](http://www.networksolutions.com/blog/2011/10/network-solutions- acquisition-by-web-com-com...
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Does Technology Spell Doom for Close Relationships? - LinuxBender https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/does-technology-spell-doom-for-close-relationships/ ====== aphextim >Solomooning, according to recent news articles, is a new phenomenon in which just-marrieds take a post-wedding trip separately from ea...
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MikeOS - simple OS you can use for learning about how OSes work - nickb http://mikeos.berlios.de/ ====== davidw Other good ones: eCos - it's an embedded system used in the real world, so it's not _super_ simple, but since its aims are less universal, there is less code and therefore it's easier to follow what's goi...
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Ask HN: How long do you think we have until 64 bit is no longer enough? - nazri1 Computing started out from the brains of men. Then we use writing tools to write it it out, and then we invented machines to help us compute. From abacus to analog machines to digital ones. This evolved from single bit to four, eight, six...
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Indian Ocean garbage patch - sushirain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_garbage_patch ====== sushirain An explanation about environmental impact ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch#Pho...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch#Photodegradation_of_plastics)): > Unlike...
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Things I learned clearing disk space - shbhrsaha http://www.shubhro.com/2016/01/01/learned-clearing-disk-space/ ====== kelsolaar If you are on OS X, Disk Inventory X ([http://www.derlien.com/](http://www.derlien.com/)) is quite useful for this as it uses visual treemaps ([http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap- history/in...
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An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream - nnx https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/11/astronaut-blood-clot/602380/ ====== rochellet I wonder how this new information will impact future plans in sending people to Mars since it's so far away.
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Computing Pioneer Stephen Wolfram Creates Data-Analysis Tool for Business - occamschainsaw https://www.wsj.com/articles/computing-pioneer-stephen-wolfram-creates-data-analysis-tool-for-business-11549533601 ====== occamschainsaw [https://outline.com/rfMDxt](https://outline.com/rfMDxt)
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Link without improving “their” search engine position - oAlbe http://www.donotlink.com/dnl/faq ====== LoSboccacc Breaking news. Eheh.
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The Browser Company - zzmp https://thebrowser.company ====== core-questions Nothing about anything they're doing that's actually going to be different. Here's the thing: the best browser is one I don't have to think about, at all. It should fade away and just let me use websites without ten million little buttons and...
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Zen room for Vim: Focsuing only on the essential - amix http://amix.dk/blog/post/19744#Zen-room-for-Vim-Focsuing-only-on-the-essential ====== richo I'm so confused, why does this need a specific thing? I'll just fullscreen {g,mac}vim and only have one pane if I'm set on doing this. ~~~ amix The idea is to remove a...
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Dropbox down? ...And now up! - paran http://dropbox.com/ ====== muppetman According to their Twitter, they're doing a DB Upgrade: <DropboxOps> We're currently upgrading our database server. We'll require about 30-45 minutes of maintenance until everything's back up. ~~~ splish Confirmed on the forums and status si...
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Linux Uprobe: User-Level Dynamic Tracing - adamnemecek http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-06-28/linux-ftrace-uprobe.html ====== lawl Can someone explain to me how this works and what the advantages are over a regular user space debugger in a bit more detail? So I read the article but I don't understand the advan...
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Capture & Share your presentations on-the-go - zuzuzu http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/12/9slides-ipad-app/ ====== zuzuzu Great easy to use tool for pitching to investors.. ------ ldarcyftw Just tried..very cool, works like a charm
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Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Software - rguzman http://blog.idonethis.com/post/31399044182/makers-schedule-managers-software ====== sandeepshetty I just read about this the other day in The Slow Web [1] by Jack Cheng: "iDoneThis is a part of the slow web movement. After you email us, your calendar is not updated ins...
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Ghosting: Julian Assange (2014) - wglb http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting ====== DyslexicAtheist > He said that Tim Geithner, the US secretary of the Treasury, had been asked > to look into ways to hinder companies that would profit from subversive > organisations. Media freedom is being eroded sma...
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A dark web tycoon pleads guilty. But how was he caught? - benjaminikuta https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615163/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-but-how-was-he-caught/ ====== saber6 I would just like to point out that this article downplayed the central issue that brought an end to Freedom Hosting: massive, willful h...
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Ask HN: Any thoughts on our site Tweetflix.com - lp456 So after about 4 months of hacking away our little web app is ready for some much needed HN dissection.<p>Any and all thoughts welcome and encouraged. http://www.tweetflix.com ====== mgrouchy Clickable <http://www.tweetflix.com> . IMO I think this is neat, but ...
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Django much? Here's a Vagrant VM for you. - pyderman https://github.com/hipwerk/django-vagrant-env ====== mrfusion I'd love to see something like this for setting up Django on an existing production server. (Especially one that works on Digital ocean or AWS)
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Japan plans to invite TSMC to build joint chip plant: Yomiuri - pseudolus https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-tsmc/japan-plans-to-invite-tsmc-to-build-joint-chip-plant-yomiuri-idUSKCN24K03B ====== jake_morrison I feel like we are going to see an announcement out of left field like TSMC buying a fab from Intel, fu...
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Ask HN: Are three servers better than one? - oblib After running into some issues trying to setup a server on DigitalOcean with everything I needed to run my web apps I decided to set one up as a web file server, another as an email server, and a third one as a CouchDB server.<p>On the down side I now have 3 servers t...
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Google vs. China, a game theoretic model - agconway http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=1994 ====== thyrsus My browser (Firefox 3.5 on Fedora 12) doesn't appear to be interpreting the mathematical symbols correctly; e.g., \Gamma doesn't appear as a gamma symbol, but instead as a grey box containing the characters (with...
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Yet Another Car Hacking Tool - net http://asintsov.blogspot.com/2016/03/yet-another-car-hacking-tool.html ====== omonoid Very cool. I have done a lot of work with peak and vector tools and have been working on an open python framework for collecting and analyzing can traffic. I am also interested in maybe creating an ...
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Doing Y Combinator in your 30s - bkudria http://zencoder.com/encoder-blog/2010/09/21/doing-y-combinator-in-your-30s/ ====== iworkforthem dun think entrepreneurship starts in yr 20s and stops by the time we hit 30. it's a passion, something we love to do. anyone out over 30s, GO FOR IT! You only live once!
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Central European TechCrunch meet-up, April 11, Prague - mcxx http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150261370719 ====== mcxx Anyone from HN comming?
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Tehran’s Promise: The revolution’s midlife crisis and the nuclear deal - Thevet http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/tehrans-promise ====== steve19 > The hostile rhetoric hasn’t changed. At Friday prayers, as > on previous visits, I heard thousands chanting “Death to > America.” This year, twenty times. >...
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Tesla 5-1 Stock Split - ikarandeep https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459020039353/tsla-8k_20200811.htm ====== sfblah Does anybody else share my sort of shell-shock WRT Tesla? I'm one of those who thinks its stock (and probably all the big tech names) are in a bubble. But whenever I say that...
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Ask HN: Where would you be most excited to work? - throwaway_oct13 (throwaway to reduce bias, to avoid possible current-employer-panic, and to blow my own horn without tying myself to being a douchebag...)<p>I'm looking for a change. My family and I are willing to move.<p>I've got a Math/CS degree from a well-known ...
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Facelette: Chat Roulette for FaceTime - mojombo http://facelette.com/ ====== holman For what it's worth, I whipped this up in about an hour. It just keeps track of who's actively looking for a FaceTime hookup and grabs one. Coincidentally, this entire app is dumb as hell. I love it so much. ~~~ mkramlich I predict a...
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The First Church of Grady Booch: "It is a superclass of the people" - randombit http://bluesock.org/booch/ ====== GFischer There's a mention of another, funnier website, but it seems to be down... ah, here it is, the same website but on another host and with some differences: [http://web.archive.org/web/199902040439...
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Show HN: A course on concepts to make better decisions or at least sound smart - petermcintyre https://conceptually.org/ ====== petermcintyre Links: \- Previous article: [http://mcntyr.com/52-concepts-cognitive- toolkit/](http://mcntyr.com/52-concepts-cognitive-toolkit/) \- A long list of concepts we haven't yet, but...
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Meter and app to tell if a gas station has pumped less than you paid for - emilyfm http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/device-smartphone-app-detect-short-liters/ ====== emilyfm TLDR; Gas (petrol) stations pumping less than you paid for is a problem in some parts of Mexico (they're mostly full service). These guys are tryi...
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What are the Best ethereum DApp ideas that haven't been launched yet? - noloblo Ethereum&#x27;s decentralized and anonymous nature are great for some types of Dapps, such as prediction&#x2F;betting and stablecoins. However, there are already many players on both these fields (e.g. Augur, Gnosis; Makercoin, Digix).<p>W...
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Fully-Fledged Guide on Ways to Protect Your Data Online - UtopiaFans https://utopia.fans/privacy/fully-fledged-guide-on-ways-to-protect-your-data-online/ ====== UtopiaFans Learn how to protect your data!
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Vivek Wadhwa Says U.S. Chases Away Immigrant Entrepreneurs - saadmalik01 http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/10/02/in-new-book-and-research-paper-vivek-wadhwa-says-u-s-chases-away-immigrant-entrepreneurs/ ====== tokenadult That's about all Vivek Wadhwa ever says. He never comes forward with any strong evidence on that i...
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The future of deep learning - nicolrx https://blog.keras.io/the-future-of-deep-learning.html ====== computerex > In DeepMind's AlphaGo, for example, most of the "intelligence" on display is > designed and hard-coded by expert programmers (e.g. Monte-Carlo tree > search); Not true. This paraphrases the original paper:...
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Show HN: Zesture – Control Mac/Windows Apps Using Hand Gestures - radhakrsna https://zesture.app/ ====== radhakrsna Hey! Touch-less technology is the future (especially after the Covid-19 pandemic). So, I made Zesture, a Mac/Windows app that uses your laptop's camera to give you touch-free control over your media, e...
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Have a Mess of Ideas in Your Head? Create an Idea Bank - redDragon http://blogs.hbr.org/morning-advantage/2012/11/have-a-mess-of-ideas-in-your-h.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== typicalrunt It's a bit of blogspam, here's the ...
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The Return of Kim Dotcom - eplanit http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887324624404578253511026556362.html ====== linuxhansl "But Mr. Dotcom believes the site is fully compliant with laws globally." Why is this his problem? Must any website now adhere to every cou...
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Ask HN: Men's fashion/style/grooming advice for software engineers? - Fr0styMatt88 In the areas of fashion and style I&#x27;m.... your somewhat typical (?) software engineer -- I think I might know some of the basics but don&#x27;t really give it much thought.<p>I&#x27;m looking to change that and I&#x27;m keen to hea...
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Show HN: Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL - kasra85 https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck/blob/master/README.md ====== joepie91_ I'm surprised that Caddy ([https://caddyserver.com/](https://caddyserver.com/)) hasn't been mentioned yet. While I'm not entirely happy with the business dire...
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How to Level the College Playing Field - adenadel https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/opinion/sunday/harold-levy-college.html ====== 80386 Maybe we shouldn't keep the college system around in its current form at all. In Iran, there's something called the Guardian Council. If you want to run for an election, the Guardi...
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Ask HN: MBP user making new job win/pc switch - throwaway128399 I recently joined a large company in a senior tech role. I was given an HP zbook&#x2F;dock&#x2F;monitor. I&#x27;ve been a Macbook Pro user for over 12 years.<p>I have a 2000 char limit here so wont expand, but imagine docker, WSL, freezing constantly, e...
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Kubectl Life Saver - lingsamuel https://gist.github.com/lingsamuel/302413294fd015dfc2ee2498c079b275 ====== celticninja I find that kubens is useful to avoid needing to state the namespace for each command. Everything else seems like an alias could easily work instead and give you more options. ------ lingsamuel A sim...
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Why is it so difficult to write valid “tar” commands from memory? - FreakyT https://www.dantilden.com/2015/03/24/tar-command/ ====== LukeShu A couple of nits: \- TFA says that `ln` is "used to create symbolic links, among other things"; I'd drop "symbolic"\--that is needlessly restricting what it does. It just create...
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In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal - yinghang http://stateofmind13.com/2015/11/14/from-beirut-this-is-paris-in-a-world-that-doesnt-care-about-arab-lives/ ====== GigabyteCoin >When my people died, they did not send the world in mourning. Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the international ...
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Innovative Apple Watch Series 5: OLED LTPO Display, Compass, Always on Feature - inoplanium https://reportagram.net/gadgets/1284-innovative-apple-watch-series-5-new-ultra-low-power-ltpo-display-compass-always-on-feature.html ====== inoplanium I upgrade my Apple Watch every other iteration: so 1, 3, and now 5. Apple's ...
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Show HN: Travel Packing Lists Made Easy - ivandrag https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=webivo.com.packinglist ====== charlieegan3 Seems to require a social login. I might have tried it out otherwise.
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Video Games Good For Kids' Brains? - neovive http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tina-barseghian/education-technology-video-games_b_829460.html ====== neovive This now validates all the time I spent playing Zelda. My favorite quote is in point 2: "The current assessment system forces teachers to teach to the test. ..... ...
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Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a passively cooled server - glcheetham https://jewjewjew.com/ ====== emosenkis As on Orthodox Jew, while I don't have anything against this and it sounds like a fun hobby project, I don't like that it misleads regarding what Jewish law actually requires. As several o...
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Ask HN: Inspirational Books - db42 With reference to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913174, what are some good books that inspire you when all you need is a little motivation. ====== pdelgallego The Alchemist. On the Road. Stranger In a Strange Land. From the Earth to the Moon How to Win Friends and Influe...
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Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum - mhluongo https://medium.com/@mhluongo/zero-knowledge-proofs-zcash-and-ethereum-f6d89fa7cba8 ====== ballenf The opening story about the sick grandma also seemed to be rather the opposite of a zero-knowledge proof. Each question seemed rather knowledge-y for a 'zero knowledge...
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Ask HN: What are some innovative ideas for improving democracy? - b01t ====== JPLeRouzic I find strange that in a time where we can be aware of everything going on at the other side of the world, there is still a need for representative democracy. The interested people could easily gain knowledge on complex issues and...
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Equifax Breach Caused by Lone Employee’s Error, Former CEO Says - DLay https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/business/equifax-congress-data-breach.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news ====== sp821543 [http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/r...
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8 Engineers Share Candid Feedback about 1:1 Meetings - brennanm https://soapboxhq.com/blog/management-skills/engineers-share-candid-feedback-one-on-ones ====== brennanm Author here! Happy to share more about what I learned in the interviews. ~~~ nunez Thank you for writing this! One-on-one styles indeed vary heavily ...
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Register for hack.summit() 2016 – huge virtual conf with 64k+ attendees - maxharris https://hacksummit.org/2016 ====== prtkgpt HN members can bypass the registration and attend for FREE using code HACKERNEWS. Speaker list: -David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails) -Joel Spolsky (co-founder and CEO of Stac...
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Snips is a Voice Assistant platform, create your private on-device assistants - oulipo https://snips.ai ====== oulipo I'm a co-founder of Snips, we are building a private-by-design Voice Assistant platform which allows companies and makers to build a smart assistant 100% on- device. Why do we do this? We want assista...
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4Chan To Target RIAA Next - Indyan http://torrentfreak.com/4chan-to-ddos-riaa-next-is-this-the-protest-of-the-future-100919/ ====== goalieca And its down... Though, I gotta wonder how useful it is to take down an almost useless website on a weekend. The email infrastructure would be far more damaging I would imagine. ...
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Internet overuse linked to depression, but questions remain - tokenadult http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments/2010/feb/03/internet-overuse-linked-to-depression-but-questions-remain ====== tokenadult "in partnership with the British Medical Journal," a great example of a new story that analyzes a res...
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How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists - ingve http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/05/09/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-a-guide-for-non-scientists/ ====== neutronicus I have a little "hack" that I find _extremely_ helpful for getting a sense of specific ...
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Ask HN: Featured Image from a feed - fadelakin On my WordPress blog, I have a syndicator plugin, with 3 or 4 websites it pulls feeds from.The problem was that it would pull the story and create the post and tags and all that - but the image would not automatically drop into the Featured Image (lower right column in ...
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Mercurial 2.0 has added largefiles extension (older r. are downloaded on demand) - ognyankulev http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LargefilesExtension ====== kevingadd This could actually give Mercurial a big edge over Git for development environments where large binary files are a core part of your workflow - like game...
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Welcome to the Library of Technomadics - jacquesm http://microship.com/ ====== VLM I remember those days... The article on the link can be read in the original on page 254 of [https://archive.org/details/80_Micro_1983-12_1001001_US](https://archive.org/details/80_Micro_1983-12_1001001_US) Page 255 is a single perso...
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Bypass Slack mention Restrictions - fortytw2 https://www.schalla.me/post/bypass-global-mention-restriction-slack/ ====== dlsniper I just seen it, guess someone forgot not to trust user inputs.
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Out of the Cell - fern12 https://granta.com/out-of-the-cell/ ====== jessriedel > As a little boy in Oxford, I was encouraged to worship the mind. I and my > friends, often sons of professors, were being drilled in French and Latin > and Greek before we turned seven, > ... > Marcus Aurelius had given me all kinds of ...
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Fluent: An innovative new interface for Gmail (from ex-Google Wave developers) - cpeterso https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227899/Fluent_review_An_innovative_new_interface_for_Gmail ====== mikexstudios Actual link: <http://fluent.io/>
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Facebook Is Dying and Here’s the Proof - MichaelKSpencer https://medium.com/futuresin/facebook-is-dying-and-heres-the-proof-dbfce2196c0a ====== HBlix The title and the contents of the article are seriously at odds, and I _wish_ that FaceBook was dying. All I can say is that I wish every business I’m involved with coul...
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Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze - chetan51 http://timeslot.me/ ====== dools My experience: 1) submitted my signup details, the page never returned a response and just hung there, but I did receive an email and was able to login 2) There's no difference between "add item" and "insert after" on th...
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Kendo UI vs. ExtJS or other frameworks? - BusterG We&#x27;ve been trying to identify a framework we can use to replace a traditional Windows back office application with a web-based equivalent which ideally we could build on Rails.<p>In the process we&#x27;ve been evaluating Sencha and ExtJS but found this post here...
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Need volunteer developers for unique website idea - aswin8728 I am trying to start up a website that will be beneficial to college students and employers alike. It will help connect students to employers and give them a better idea on what career path to pursue once they graduate. If you'd like to be involved, get ...
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Ask HN: Is there a name for the concept of "value changes upon read"? - uvTwitch I'm trying to think of a name to use to describe a value which will reliably change upon being read. Not the nature of the change, but naming this concept of change-upon-read.<p>For example, I have this, complete with syntax error: clas...
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The only way to hit net zero by 2050 is to stop flying - makerofspoons https://www.ft.com/content/e00819ba-4814-11ea-aee2-9ddbdc86190d ====== SomeoneFromCA Netzero has never been a good internet provider anyway.
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PayPal Acquires Modest - foodstances http://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/paypal-acquires-modest/ ====== wyldfire also here [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10085093](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10085093)
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End of “social VR”? Sansar shifting emphasis away from VR - Kroeler http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/05/sansar-social-vr-linden-lab-pc.html ====== berg01 Linden labs. A dying company. Not sure what this is relevant for.
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Ask HN: Why don't aeroplanes transmit pictures/sound off the plane? - hoodoof Seems a little odd that in 2015 when there is an aviation crash that the source of the data is primarily from the black box recorders.<p>Why isn&#x27;t there a camera in the cockpit that sends pictures periodically off the plane to somewhe...
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A description of a simple Ray Tracer (1995) [pdf] - laex http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/p/rt95.pdf ====== angersock Everybody should try implementing a ray tracer at least once in their programming career. The math is well-documented, and the wow factor is pretty great. It also is a rabbit-hole of optimizations ...
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'Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission - gatsby http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/facebook-dating/ ====== ryanclemson They don't really need permission to scrape public Facebook profiles now do they? The first version of Facebook (Facemash) used pictures and names scraped from a pri...
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