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We work for the Internet - ChrisArchitect http://iworkfortheinternet.org/ ====== pdx It's not immediately clear what this page is for. For me, I began to read the paragraph, but my eyes were quickly distracted to the loading pictures. I assumed this was an anti SOPA page, but had to reread it to make sure. Please ...
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Alan Kay on Lisp - shakes https://www.quora.com/What-did-Alan-Kay-mean-by-Lisp-is-the-greatest-single-programming-language-ever-designed/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1 ====== JepZ Actually, I am missing the simplicity of Lisp and Smalltalk in todays languages. From what I remember, they both have a fairly simple but unive...
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Unexpected places you can and can’t use null bytes - ammmir https://eklitzke.org/unexpected-places-you-can-and-cant-use-null-bytes ====== kstenerud It seems a bit odd to call it "unexpected" when any C API that accepts a char* and doesn't include a length parameter is commonly understood to expect a null terminated st...
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Google calls bullshit on newspapers who say they don't want to be indexed - peter123 http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2009/07/working-with-news-publishers.html ====== wmf This headline and blog post strike me as disingenuous. The newspapers know how to use robots.txt. Clearly they want to be indexed; they just w...
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Science and the Rise of the Co-Authors (2015) - Hooke https://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2015/11/25/science-and-the-rise-of-the-co-authors/ ====== galuggus In China academics get bonuses for authoring papers. There is an informal market for buying selling authorship. I wonder if this contributes
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Recruiters guide for new Coders - veganarchocap http://www.ewanvalentine.co.uk/recruiters-new-coders/ ====== veganarchocap My first own post to HN, go easy on me! Thought I'd try to give a bit of balanced advice for juniors :) ~~~ pedalpete I found your writing a bit hard to follow, and therefore didn't get all the...
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Find out where your time went this year - quasiconvex https://www.skej.us/mycal.html ====== jflatow The permissions are a lot to ask, but I found it worth the price. ~~~ quasiconvex Unfortunately there's no way around it to show you the personalized report. But we certainly take privacy very seriously.
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Anonymous hacks Australian Government in response to Internet censorship - go37pi http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/operation-titstorm-hackers-bring-down-government-websites-20100210-nqku.html ====== esonica I thinks its only a matter of time before Anonymous gets labelled a terrorist organisation to ...
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I love SF but I needed a break. Photos from my coast-to-coast motorcycle trip - samp615 http://imgur.com/a/euaD5 ====== samp615 I also did a write up about my packing list and other details, in case anyone is interested in taking a similar trip but isn't sure what to do: [http://www.theantimba.com/america-youre-one-...
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We cut our Flask page load times by 60% with one line of code - shreyans https://medium.com/@5hreyans/the-one-weird-trick-that-cut-our-flask-page-load-time-by-70-87145335f679 ====== peterlada Seems like this could possibly lead to memory leak? No upper bound on the memory usage? ~~~ Walkman I'm not familiar with Jinj...
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Announcing Confluent, a Company for Apache Kafka and Realtime Data - LiveTheDream http://blog.confluent.io/2014/11/06/announcing-confluent-a-company-for-apache-kafka-and-real-time-data/ ====== dantiberian This is really good news for the Apache Kafka project. Having a corporate sponsor behind it will ensure that it ge...
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This is what happens when you work yourself almost to death. - k33n http://blog.outernet.io/article/329/one-step-too-far ====== anigbrowl Yikes! A cautionary tale, to be sure. Glad to hear you're back on an even keel; a bit of time to recharge your batteries and reconnect with the basics of life sounds ideal. This i...
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Material Design , Learning the Rules and Breaking Them - Danafrid https://medium.com/@creatrixx/material-design-learning-the-rules-and-breaking-them-1787ee364094 ====== ulber Can't agree more about the importance of breaking the rules. In my foray to Windows Phone development, I spent a lot of time customizing compone...
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Show HN: Real-time raytracing as web page background - c3d http://www.taodyne.com/presentation/index-reveal.html#/references ====== c3d This page uses a specific shader courtesy ShaderToy that does real-time ray- tracing in the background. You can verify that it's real-time by moving the mouse. Moving left and right...
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Twine: a social network with brains - bootload http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/10/twine_a_social_6.php ====== bootload _"... Twine provides one place to tie everything together: emails, bookmarks, documents, RSS feeds, contacts, photos, videos, product info, data records, and more ..."_ Danger Will Robinson,...
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Why Is The World Run By Bean Counters? - sunjain http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/2011/07/16/why-is-the-world-run-by-bean-counters/?partner=yahootix ====== glimcat The abuse of survivor bias in this article pisses me off. There are much more valuable lessons to take away from Amazon et al. than "be radical, be ...
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MIT's Building 20: “The Magical Incubator” (1998) - li4ick https://infinitehistory.mit.edu/video/mits-building-20-magical-incubator ====== tpmx Note the transcript PDF: (It's very nicely formatted for readability.) [https://static.3playmedia.com/files/2O_NhKHa13A/transcript.p...](https://static.3playmedia.com/files/...
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Show HN: Conversational insurance quote system for freelancers - iamashley https://withjack.co.uk/quote/ ====== mijustin Love this. My first thought was: "this doesn't feel like a chat bot." I think it's largely because of the design. Well done! ~~~ iamashley Thanks, Justin. Can't wait to develop it into an instant p...
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Fixing our social sharing tools - tensafefrogs https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/c4c4074591ba ====== pthor There really should be a better way to subscribe to people. I don't want to miss out on major life events of old friends, but don't want to hear about their political views all the times. ------ Pingit This is exactly ...
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The Daily WTF goes white to "support" SOPA - anthuswilliams http://thedailywtf.com/ ====== sp332 Then write down the IPs, take a photo of the page on a wooden table, and share the photo on 68.142.214.24 (flickr.com)! ~~~ randomdata Being a non-American, maybe I'm just a little out of the loop, but what is blocking do...
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[Ask HN]: Where do you read most articles? - mpcadosch Where do you read most articles? On your phone? Tablet? Desktop ?<p>A16Z Benedict Evans says phone is killing both desktop and tablet, and I am just trying to get an idea of relative percentages to see if this is true. ====== stonogo This place is like the worst...
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Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Scaling Message Delivery - tylertreat https://bravenewgeek.com/building-a-distributed-log-from-scratch-part-3-scaling-message-delivery/ ====== majidazimi > In Kafka and NATS Streaming, reads (and writes) are only served by the > leader. Similarly, Amazon Kinesis supports up to ...
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Couple Pays $155,000 To Clone Dog In Korea - Pup Now Delivered - keltecp11 http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/01/28/parker.fl.cloned.puppy.wpbf ====== jm4 This links directly to a video. Can you put [video] or something in the headline next time?
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Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain - paul http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008/03/ideas-vs-judgment-and-execution_9197.html ====== nostrademons The way I see it, ideas are important. It's just that you need _hundreds_ of good ideas in order to get to the top. And they all have to bu...
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Chrome bookmark extension that saves your reading position - yongli92 https://github.com/NeilLi1992/LightMarker2 ====== yongli92 This simple chrome bookmark extention saves your scrollbar position in order to save your reading position on a long page (dev doc, tutorals etc). Next time you open the page it automatical...
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Servo – A parallel browser engine in Rust by Mozilla - snird https://github.com/mozilla/servo ====== agumonkey Just recently passed Acid 1 [https://twitter.com/metajack/status/371041675633647616](https://twitter.com/metajack/status/371041675633647616) ~~~ dbaupp Note that the master branch is actually still 1 patch f...
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Ontology-Oriented Design and Programming [pdf] - kleevr http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=1B0BB3191D021A46DD03E24407449B53?doi=10.1.1.18.6062&rep=rep1&type=pdf ====== kleevr Sorry, their site went down for maintenance shortly after I submitted... I found another copy here: [http://www.mindswa...
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Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole - Balgair https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/time-has-no-meaning-at-the-north-pole/ ====== Lambdanaut That was a superb article. Really sublime stuff.
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Netflix needs to grow, but it’s sacrificing great original series to do so - jmsflknr https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/12/20791602/netflix-canceled-shows-originals-tuca-bertie-oa-streaming-wars-disney ====== WebScorpion Their formula for picking which shows to renew needs some work from my perspective. Shows I watched ...
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I’m a Black Police Officer. Here’s How to Change the System - js2 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/opinion/police-funding-defund.html ====== peter_d_sherman >"Police academies must change, too. Police are taught that the enemy is “out there.” When they arrive at work with that mind-set, they don’t know who wants the...
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LegoBlocks – A block based Rich Text editor made using React - brijeshb42 http://bitwiser.in/legoblocks/ ====== jacquesm Suggest you change your name _before_ you gain traction and get sued. ~~~ brijeshb42 Can that really happen? ~~~ jacquesm It _will_ happen.
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SmartAsset (YCS12) Raises Money to Provide Financial Advice - mcarvin http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/30/smartasset-funding/ ====== ianferrel I'm definitely interested in this product, and tried them out a little while ago when I first saw them mentioned on HN. I was very confused then. The math didn't seem to work ou...
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C++98 Support Costs Extra (or why we should switch to C++11 now) - zeugma http://marcmutz.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/c98-support-costs-extra/ ====== HardyLeung I used C++ for years, and then switched to C#, and recently switched back to C++ in my new company (choice of language reflects only the nature of the software...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Rethinking Deepfakes - bookofjoe https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/zuckerberg-very-good-case-deepfakes-are-completely-different-from-misinformation/592681/ ====== luxuryballs I really don’t even like this conversation, make the platform better, stop worrying about the content, i...
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Ask HN: Why aren't brain computer interfaces consumer products yet? - julienreszka At least as input devices to replace or complement keyboard and mouse&#x2F;touch?<p>When do you think they will be ready to be consumer products?<p>How much would you spend to buy one?<p>What kind of design would you like?<p>What would ...
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Unusual Business Card Designs - hiralove http://oddstuffmagazine.com/90-most-unusual-business-card-designs-of-all-time.html?sms_ss=hackernews ====== swombat I think there must be about a hundred websites listing the same "unusual business card designs". Once you've seen one, you've seen them all. ~~~ hiralove ya yo...
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Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? - ashwin_kumar http://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-auditor-is-an-idiot-how-do-i-give-him-the-information-he-wants ====== rdl The last time this got discussed, I thought the consensus was he was trolling -- the point being ...
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Chrome's Most Important Feature - Garbage http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/08/chromes-most-important-feature.html ====== eps This will probably get downvoted quickly, but Chrome's updater is one of few things I quarantine on my machine. I just don't trust Google enough to let it run stuff that "works quietly in ...
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How Long Could You Endure the World's Quietest Place? - larkinrichards http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/05/05/orfield_laboratories_in_minneapolis_is_the_world_s_quietest_place.html ====== ColinWright Here's the previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827243](https://news.ycombinator....
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A Patent Case That Affects Everyone - wallflower https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-21/a-patent-case-that-affects-everyone ====== dang Looks like the story was discussed here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929992](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929992). ------ officelineback That is cra...
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Amazon Kindle Fire review - esutton http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/amazon-kindle-fire-review/ ====== esutton just throwing this out there, the silk browser takes advantage of caching content. when you have only a dozen reviewers using it is not really indicative of how it will preform with a million users using it...
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I don't code. Here's my project: Notepeep.com - mathewsi Site Link: http://www.notepeep.com<p>Site Description: A place where you can anonymously write about, rate, and comment on people, places, and things.<p>Hello everyone,<p>I don't really code. I have an extremely limited understanding of PHP and I get the basic...
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Florence Nightingale: Social reformer, statistician, founder of modern nursing - happy-go-lucky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale ====== corny A propos as today is International Nurses Day.
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We Wouldn't Work for the Galactic Empire If It Were Against McKinsey's Values - sohamsankaran https://honestyisbest.com/mckinsey ====== hos234 "Behind the cool mask lay a high-strung disposition; Canaris was agitated and tormented by fear after each passing danger yet was still addicted to new adventures. Like most cu...
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Jetbrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2018 - kumaranvpl https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/c2-DevEcosystem18 ====== ruskimalooski Note that the form only works properly in Chrome :/
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How to Emulate the “super” Keyword in C++ - joboccara https://www.fluentcpp.com/2017/12/26/emulate-super-base/ ====== cjensen There was a proposal for a super/inherited keyword in C++. It was immediately killed when Michael Tiemann demonstrated this technique of adding it manually via typedef in the base class. As ot...
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Hacker News Kansai #5: January 25 in Kyoto - sgdesign http://hnkansai.doorkeeper.jp/events/2295 ====== sgdesign By the way, we've been having a hard time attracting Japanese audiences to the past meetups, in part because I'm not very familiar with the Japanese tech ecosystem yet (and not speaking Japanese doesn't he...
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YC interview advice - apwalker http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2009/04/advice-for-yc-interviewees_12.php ====== pg "the answer probably shouldn't involve ads" Actually we're not as down on ads as other investors seem to be. We liked Heyzap, and they make money from ads. "The last thing you want to do is argue with the...
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Show HN: A different way to follow xkcd – xkcd Filr stream - himangshuj http://filr.io/channel/xkcd ====== thelonelygod I actually really don't like this. I took a look at the source and the images are being loaded from the original sites. For the content creators that pay for hosting with ad revenue you're still h...
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"When dealing with RMS, keep the following things in mind" - fogus http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RichardStallman ====== sriramk I know RMS is a special case but it annoys me when people say/act as if they're too busy to properly respond. One of my favorite people in Microsoft is Ray Ozzie. Every single time I've mai...
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Show HN: React Native-powered forms generator - gcanti https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb-form-native ====== hyuuu it is awesome to see how fast react native is gaining third party plugins :) the npm route surely will be a boom for them (though some packages wont work)
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Vue.js vs. React: what happened in 2017 - jetter http://pixeljets.com/blog/vue-js-vs-react-what-to-expect-in-2018/ ====== wjossey I’m the founder writing code (but not the only technical person) for my three person startup. In October I started migrating our MVP from server side templates to Vue, given we had directio...
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The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (2012) [pdf] - rutenspitz http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2012/isbn9789526049175/isbn9789526049175.pdf ====== justincormack There is more on github [1] and the wiki [2] including videos and articles [3] [1] [https://github.com/rumpkernel](https://github.com/rum...
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Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam - adamnemecek https://ghostbin.com/paste/6kho7 ====== sklivvz1971 > I want to dedicate this guide to the victims of the assault on the Armando > Diaz school, and to all those whose blood has been spilled at the hands of > Italian fascism. For those who don't kn...
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Ask HN: Web Language + Framework Most "Comfortable" for Desktop Coders? - ComputerGuru Hi All,<p>First some background. I've been a developer for 11 years and have dabbled with pretty much everything, though my forte is system programming in C/C++ on Windows and *nix. For the past 5 years, I've been doing some light...
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Jan 13th (Sunday) 1pm, Oakland Sudoroom: Aaron Swartz and Kopimism - jaekwon http://kopimism.org ====== jaekwon Yes, this is against "social norms". Fuck social norms.
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The World's First Floating Dairy Farm - elorant https://www.freethink.com/articles/the-world-s-first-floating-dairy-farm ====== mdorazio As cool of a design as this is, I can't help but think "wtf?" We're running out of land needed to feed populations and instead of asking something like, "can we maybe reduce demand f...
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ASK: Slack Stats DM vs. Public vs. Private – Whats It Mean? - social_quotient I started doing a bit of analysis on how we are using slack and found that we have the following usage<p>Total Messages 80% public channels, 4% private channels, 17% DMs<p>I compared this to a client team we also have access to and noticed t...
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Fixing the 949 problem with Fipes - tOkeshu http://monkeypatch.me/blog/fixing-the-949-problem-with-fipes.html ====== alexchamberlain Does `priv` stand for `private`? <https://github.com/tOkeshu/fipes/tree/master/fipes/priv/ssl> ~~~ tOkeshu Theses files are examples files. You can find the same in the cowboy_exampl...
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How did software get so reliable without proof? - azhenley https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2020/03/02/how-did-software-get-so-reliable-without-proof/ ====== pjscott How does software get reliable at all, ever? In my experience there are two ways: 1\. You write reliable software from the start. It feels a lot like writ...
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Game Theory – Prison Breakthrough - johnwheeler http://www.economist.com/news/economics-brief/21705308-fifth-our-series-seminal-economic-ideas-looks-nash-equilibrium-prison ====== oli5679 This article presents the reflections of Game Theorist, Ariel Rubenstien, about the practical uses of his discipline. [http://www....
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Windows 10 Mobile: Why Windows phones still have potential - ilmiont http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/op-ed-one-year-on-why-i-m-still-using-windows-10-mobile/article/489772 ====== ilmiont Disclaimer - I am the author of this article. While Hacker News and W10M aren't necessarily regularly asso...
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We Don't Sell Saddles Here - mcfunley https://medium.com/p/4c59524d650d ====== 205guy Crickets... I'll bite: I'm still not sure what Slack does, and more critically, how it does it. The wall of text that was linked was aimed at employee motivation (or maybe VC presentations), so it is not good at communicating with...
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Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned - rms http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/ ====== babul This is essentially the same as <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218496> (without the login needed for those who don't want to sign-up with _another_ site)...
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Oliver's simple fluid dynamics simulator in Javascript - nickb http://nerget.com/fluidSim/ ====== TrevorJ Wow, that's mesmerizing. I would love to see this on a multi-touch display. I wonder if you could make an iphone app like this. Maybe have a little paper boat that floats on the surface which you can't interact w...
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The envelope paradox (2006) - olalonde http://blog.plover.com/math/envelope.html ====== landryraccoon Can the author prove that case (3): one is less than R and one is greater than R occurs with greater than zero probability? Consider a special case of the experiment: One in which the number picker always picks numbe...
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Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles - ingve https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity ====== akling Hey guys, I'm the author of this project. Surprising to see it on HN but life is surprising sometimes! I actually made a little demo video about this system just yesterday if you'd like to se...
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Microsoft launches Outlook.com, a clean, fresh take on webmail - akshxy http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/07/31/microsoft-launches-outlook-com-a-clean-fresh-take-on-webmail-that-puts-it-back-in-the-game/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=share+button&utm_content=Microsoft+launches+Outlook.com%2C+a+clean%2C+fresh+take+...
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Ask HN: What bug(s) make “LPRINT 0.00001” output “0.0XYZ1”? - Someone https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Timex_Sinclair_1000#Bugs states:<p><pre><code> On the TS1000 and ZX81, the command: LPRINT 0.00001 results in the Timex printer outputting 0.0XYZ1. </code></pre> I find that a curious bug (...
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Ask HN: How do you explain what you do to your relatives? - davo11 I'm guessing others have this experience, the uncle who's the hardware salesman who thinks your sitting at home for the last 12 months and is loud about it, the relative who just nods and looks a bit sad when you tell them what you're doing. All folk w...
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Bill Gates sides with FBI on demand for Apple backdoor to shooter's iPhone - cseelus http://www.cnet.com/news/bill-gates-sides-with-fbi-on-demand-for-backdoor-to-shooters-iphone-massacre-san-bernardino/ ====== freddealmeida I can't help but think this clearly demarks the largest difference between apple and microsoft....
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SpotOver app for tracking friends on trip - critiq https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sahajsoft.spotover&hl=en ====== jayeshpr Its only in India?
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Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong? - satai https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2018/jan/08/is-everything-johann-hari-knows-about-depression-wrong-lost-connections ====== Lerc Original HN Post and discussion. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16092975](https://news.ycombinator.co...
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Salesforce Buys Social Media Monitoring Company Radian6 For $326 Million - joetek http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/30/salesforce-buys-social-media-monitoring-company-radian6-for-326-million/ ====== sucuri2 Good for them! What most people doesn't know is that Radian6 founder, C. Newton, also founded Q1 Labs ( a successf...
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Ask HN: What are you plan to work on this weekend? - shahocean ====== starlord97 Starting on some beginner kaggle competitions
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Ask HN: Resource time allocation / overview tools? - _s Is there a tool &#x2F; service that can be used to track development capacity?<p>Something along the lines of Developers A,B,C each have ~30hrs of week available; A has taken up tasks X,Y,Z (already time estimated) for this sprint thus leaving free only 5 hrs, pl...
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Show HN: Beat my tank through strategy and programming - huangyz0918 https://github.com/huangyz0918/TankLogo ====== sclangdon I get that the idea is to have an ever-improving champion, and I like the idea, but it's not going to work out that way in practice. The best way to defeat the current champion will be to explo...
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Why drug prices in America are so high (2016) - ThomPete http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/09/economist-explains-2?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whydrugpricesinamericaaresohigh ====== RcouF1uZ4gsC This has a very simple fix, and is a fix that would appeal to Donald Trump: Require that pharmaceutical compa...
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Paper Planes - reimertz http://paperplanes.world ====== cyberferret My first thoughts when I visited the site was "This all looks very silly. Who would even do this?" 15 minutes later, having launched and caught a bevy of paper planes, I am rocking in my seat with delight like a schoolboy again. Thank you for making...
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Show HN: BestRuby – Ruby Tricks, Idioms, Refactorings and Best Practices - franzunix http://www.best-ruby.com ====== joshmn There is also fast-ruby: [https://github.com/JuanitoFatas/fast- ruby](https://github.com/JuanitoFatas/fast-ruby) ------ brandoncordell Just wanted to let you know clicking on section headings[1]...
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Boy Genius Report Reviews MacBook Air - mitchdev http://mitchj.info/blog/2010/10/boy-genius-report-reviews-macbook-air/ ====== towndrunk Direct link to article. [http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/10/29/apple-macbook- air-...](http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/10/29/apple-macbook-air-review/)
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Ask HN: What do you use for file backups? - null_ptr ====== mrlyc I classify my files into ordinary, important and vital. Once a week, everything gets backed up onto one of my two external drives. The important and vital stuff gets backed up onto a USB I always carry with me and the vital stuff also gets backed up ...
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Using Trello for Agile Software Development: The Complete Guide - nhance http://buildbettersoftware.com/with-trello/ ====== bkmartin We are already using Trello to track our projects, but this process is going to make things even easier. This will work great for my small team of just a handful of developers, plus my...
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Ask HN: Going to Startup School After-Party and want a free dinner? - nopassrecover Hey,<p>I'm Matt, an Aussie flying over for Startup School 2012 who unfortunately missed a ticket to the After-Party (timezone difference).<p>I'm obviously pretty keen to go and catch up with everyone after, so if you have a ticket an...
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Why Net Negative Producing Programmers are Here to Stay-- Despite the Cost - nsoonhui http://itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-net-negative-producing-programmers.html ====== nihilocrat _Finally, the hiring process, as employed by most IT companies, are not exactly encouraging programmers to self-improve....
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Forget AT&T. The Real Monopolies Are Google and Facebook - arunbahl http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/opinion/forget-att-the-real-monopolies-are-google-and-facebook.html?ref=opinion ====== Nomentatus Why can't anyone use the words "public utility?" These are public utilities, if any public utilities ever existed.
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Ask HN: The best way to find remote job - shtpavel What is the best way to find remote job? Actually i&#x27;m tryin&#x27; to find 20hours\week job to upgrade my Node.js(for now i&#x27;m .NET developer) skill and learn something new with real life project.. But I want to get some small salary, 5-15\hour will be okey. ...
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Ask HN: How to make the area "around" a site clickable? - brandnewlow Check out http://www.collegehumor.com/ and hover over the empty space in the gutters to the side of the main content. That whole space is clickable sending you off to the advertiser for that day. What are some good ways of making the entire area...
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Deaf moths use noise-cancelling scales as protection against bat biosonar - bookofjoe https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2019.0692 ====== bookofjoe [https://phys.org/news/2020-02-deaf-moths-evolved-noise- cance...](https://phys.org/news/2020-02-deaf-moths-evolved-noise-cancelling- scales.html)
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HTML to PDF converter with custom resolutions for presentations and screenshots - gfmio https://github.com/gfmio/html2pdf ====== hlidotbe I may have missed something but isn't this just a (very small) wkhtmltopdf wrapper? ~~~ gfmio It is at the moment, but it provides the right config ;) Plus, I'm planning to expan...
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Babson Burnbook gets 1200 visits in two days and then gets shut down by school - jhuang16888 http://www.babsonfreep.com/2011/11/burnbook-me-smolders/ ====== autoreverse Off topic but perhaps someone could tell Babson Freep their WordPress has been hacked and displays spam content and links when visited by Google. Ch...
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App unveiled that checks for adults posing as children - wybo http://www.itproportal.com/2011/01/24/researchers-unveil-anti-child-grooming-app/#ixzz1BxZqEPW4 ====== wybo I wonder how this impacts very intelligent / early of age children, that might be flagged as adults by it... ~~~ bryanlarsen Actually, I doubt that ...
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Tell HN: Skype employee fakes "One month free calls promo" - preek 20 minutes ago there was tweet saying they would issue a one month of free Skype calls[1].<p>5 minutes later they deleted the tweet, issuing a new one[2] that says: "Sorry – the last tweet was posted in error. We’re 100% focused on getting Skype back...
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Mbed: 32 bit micro with cloud based toolchain - joe_bleau http://hackaday.com/2009/11/21/review-mbed-nxp-lpc1768-microcontroller/ For some time I've thought that a web based toolchain might be advantageous for these simple embedded boards, so I'm glad to see someone trying it out. ====== joe_bleau To me, the interest...
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Ask HN: Best API / tools for finding local attractions - chunkyslink Hi<p>Are there any decent tools / API's out there (paid or free) that will allow me to provide either a postcode/zip OR lat/lng and get back a list of local businesses / attractions.<p>I would like to say. Get me a list of all cinemas within 5 mile...
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Getting Over Uber - kostyk https://medium.com/backchannel/getting-over-uber-fdf75faf7f6e ====== GeorgeOrr Very Interesting response to this from Tim O'reilly: [https://medium.com/@timoreilly/getting-over- taxis-79849b3a42...](https://medium.com/@timoreilly/getting-over- taxis-79849b3a4282) ~~~ basseq I very much agr...
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Show HN: CryptoHack – a fun platform for learning cryptography - hyper_reality https://cryptohack.org/ ====== mpeg This is really cool, I discovered hackthebox last year and love the gamified nature of it and how well it resonates with younger people. I got to the top 10 in HTB for a while and was pretty surprised th...
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Ask HN: an intro to P=NP - ErrantX Im one of these annoying people that likes to absorb information by reading it (I find it is more sticky that way).<p>So, yes, the P=NP problem. It's always piqued my interest but a lot of the online material is a bit too mathematical for me to handle without some serious revision ...
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Handy online OAuth explorer - stevejalim http://sevengoslings.net/~fangel/oauth-explorer/ ====== sanj How is this superior to (or different than) Google's opensourced OAuth Playground? <http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/> ~~~ fangel Google's Playground in it's current online form only supports Google's...
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Bite-Sized Metrics Email Course - jkulmala http://blog.firstofficer.io/bite-sized-metrics/ ====== saturnflyer Interesting. What kind of stuff does this course have? ~~~ jkulmala Do you subscribe to Seth Godin's or Simon Sinek's posts? This is a series of similar very small posts, but instead of being inspirational...
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