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What Startups can learn from the Mittelstand - adoming3 https://medium.com/@ronanperceval/what-startups-can-learn-from-the-mittelstand-399842086221 ====== adoming3 With the amount of unicorns in 2014 (68) and more coming online, I personally find it difficult to remember that VC isn't the only route to global niche ...
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Pivotal loses almost half its value after 'train wreck' of an earnings report - jawns https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/05/pivotal-earnings-q1-2020.html ====== RickJWagner Ouch! The market seems to have reacted pretty strongly.
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Why aren't there more engineers in politics? - dangoldin http://dangoldin.com/2013/01/23/why-arent-there-more-engineers-in-politics/ ====== ianfernz Because we're all disillusioned, and politics doesn't play to our strengths. It's very illogical. ~~~ dangoldin I feel we're using excuses because we don't want to adm...
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Single Drop of Blood Will Soon Be Enough to Diagnose Most Types of Cancer - mgdo http://www.thelatestnews.com/single-drop-of-blood-soon-enough-to-diagnose-most-types-of-cancer/ ====== bavcyc What's the difference between this method and this method: [https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/jun15/cancerpaten...](htt...
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Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Patents - d0ne http://www.dailytech.com/Judge+Finds+Apple+in+Violation+of+HTCs+Newly+Acquired+Patents/article22275.htm ====== dpcan Let's just stop the import of all computers and phones over Patent rulings. HTC and Apple should stick to their guns and deny impo...
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Pi-Hole: Network Wide, Hardware Ad Blocking - indexerror https://pi-hole.net/ ====== Borating See also FreeContributor [1] [1] [https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor](https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor)
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The Government Gave Big Oil the Power to Prosecute Its Biggest Critic - pizza https://prospect.org/power/chevron-big-oil-power-prosecute-its-biggest-critic/ ====== pizza This case is insane to me. Not only did the government allow Chevron to prosecute him in their place, the judge overseeing Donziger's case openly bl...
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Ask HN: Does it really make sense to contact bloggers a week before launch? - vaksel I mean sure if you are the next Google and are launching some enormous project with millions in funding, it might make sense. But if you are just another startup, is it realistic to think they'll be holding their breath for a week t...
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Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers - yitchelle http://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-layoffs-idUSKBN17J1BI ====== madengr Hell, my company encouraged retirement by promising medical coverage, then one year later pulled the coverage on those who took the deal. ~~~ SamUK96 That's actually evil... I find that...
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Koa11y – FOSS desktop app to detect accessibility (a11y) issues on webpages - jaredcheeda https://open-indy.github.io/Koa11y/ ====== jaredcheeda Happy Koalaween! We just released a new version of Koa11y. It's an easy to use program to detect accessibility issues on webpages and output a report in different formats (HT...
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Ask HN: What are good ways to find startup problems to solve? - pigpigs ====== mpbm If you're looking for a startup, something that's supposed to start cheap and scale huge in <10 years, then you're probably only looking at problems that can be addressed by software on the internet. That being said, you don't have to ...
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We Shouldn't Wait for Medium - bootload http://scripting.com/2017/01/09/weShouldntWaitForMedium.html ====== michaelbuckbee We're mostly developers here and Dave (the author) is in fact one of my personal development heroes, and while it pains me I think we're all mostly missing the point. It's easy to look at a singl...
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Miirket: SSH access without the need of IP address and port forwarding - recaisinekli http://miirket.com ====== recaisinekli What is Miirket? Miirket is an open source highly gifted socket. It creates a secure tunnel to let you access your Raspberry Pi and other linux devices over SSH without the need of IP address a...
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Ten questions about entrepreneurs - Sam_Odio http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/ten-questions-a.html ====== ashu I actually disagree with a couple points there. I think it's not true that entrepreneurs are "born". I come from a culture (middle-class India) where entrepreneurship is so unthinkable, it's almost a tabo...
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Ask HN: What open source are you most thankful for? - colinbartlett ====== onion2k Probably bind or httpd ... the fundamental tools that took the internet and transformed it in to the World Wide Web. I wouldn't have a career, a hobby, a financee, or 20 years of interesting experiences without them (well, I would, but i...
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Can you think of variations on the likebetter.com idea? For example, can you use it to detect cheating in online chess? - amichail ====== amichail Maybe we could address cheating in online chess by showing various images throughout a game. The intuition here is that these images will have some impact on your thinki...
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Advice from the frontline of “Startup-ing” - Jagannath https://medium.com/p/aa2c14912eea ====== by_Seeing I'd be curious to read even a short sentence about how you learned each lesson. ------ rock_hard Great read. Thanks
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SaltStack wins Gigaom Structure - UtahDave http://gigaom.com/2013/06/20/devops-player-saltstack-wins-structure-launchpad-competition-and-investor-interest/ ====== ivan_krechetov We use SaltStack for both the development environment under Vagrant/VirtualBox ([https://github.com/saltstack/salty- vagrant](https://githu...
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ZeroDB, an end-to-end encrypted database, is open source - mwilkison http://blog.zerodb.io/zerodb-open-source-announcement/ ====== lewisl9029 This is fascinating. Awesome work! An encrypted server-side database with client-side decryption definitely seems like a great building block for private, secure applications! ...
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Dallas Buyers Club startup advice - maximecormier https://medium.com/p/50eb93732e5e ====== sogen tl:dr version: * Solve a pain * Start small * Work in a confortable place * Check your cash flow
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Show HN: Easy way to engage your customers - soho33 Since i used to work in the entertainment industry before, i always ended up getting lots of emails about different events, promotions at restaurants clubs etc. i never ended up reading them so i was thinking there has to be a better way to engage your potential cu...
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Where to Score: Classified Ads from Haight-Ashbury - tintinnabula https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/14/where-to-score/ ====== xxr >Would-be bull fighter needs sponsor Is this gay slang? Urban Dictionary's second definition[0] suggests something like a "beard" (straight cover for a closeted person), but I wo...
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Ask HN: How to build a profitable SaaS app? - SaaS_dreamsr ====== verdverm By asking the question, What problem can I solve for you, for which you will give me a fair exchange of money?
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A patent example of beneficial IP - kalu http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16153508657179172499&q=Powell+v.+Home+Depot+USA+Inc.,+663+F.+3d+1221+-+Court+of+Appeals,+Federal+Circuit+2011&hl=en&as_sdt=2006 ====== kalu Patents get a bad wrap. This court decision from 2011 describes what may be a clear cut exam...
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Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death - timf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Bang_to_Heat_Death ====== nfnaaron The monetization period is going to be relatively short lived. ------ timf Note the double-logarithmic scale.
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At Goldman Sachs event, Travis Kalanick compared his company’s woes to Ferguson - justinv http://pando.com/2014/11/20/on-stage-at-goldman-sachs-event-travis-kalanick-compared-his-companys-woes-to-ferguson/ ====== justinv I do not envy Uber's PR team this week. (Or most weeks, to be honest) ~~~ justinv Also, remembe...
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WebOS 3.0 SDK - rafaelc https://developer.palm.com/ ====== brianwillis I've been thinking a bit about how the tablet game plays out over the next few months. Just for fun, here's some speculation: 1) Apple sells a crap ton of iPads. Their biggest problem will be that they can't make them fast enough. Don't whine to...
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SQL Layer launches, bringing Google F1 like capabilities to FoundationDB - Dave_Rosenthal http://blog.foundationdb.com/sql-layer-launches-bringing-google-f1-like-capabilities-to-foundationdb ====== kolev If you (like me) wondered about those small displays: [https://www.doublesight.com/product/detail/55.html](https://...
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The Pirate Bay Making $9 Million Per Year - horatio05 http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml ====== mynameishere _sold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of EUR60,000 per month_ Let's see: We could advertise on google and target people specifically searching for a product, and pay as little as 10 cents per click...
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Show HN: Ranking Your University Using PageRank on Wikipedia - turtlesoup http://blog.argteam.com/coding/university-ranking-wikipedia/ ====== jamessb It would be interesting to compare your ranking to that obtained by simply sorting by the number of alumni with their own wikipedia articles. ------ jmduke Heh, this is...
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How the Apocalypse Will Bring Out the Best in People - pmcpinto https://psmag.com/how-the-apocalypse-will-bring-out-the-best-in-people-56f51136e770#.oegshdfkk ====== splitrocket There's a user on Metafilter.com, Dee Xtrovert,( [https://www.metafilter.com/user/45778](https://www.metafilter.com/user/45778) ) who lived t...
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Facebook survives Q4 with slowing 1.4B daily users but record $12.97B revenue - artsandsci https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/facebook-q4-2017-earnings/ ====== lev99 Interesting numbers: Facebook spends more then 1/3 of it's money on R&D. YoY increase of Daily users by 14%. Facebook paid an effective tax rate of 23% i...
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Malcolm Tredinnick (malcolmt) has passed of a burst aneurysm - masklinn https://twitter.com/rayloyzaga ====== masklinn Multiple sources confirmed it (or annouced before @RayLoyzaga) but he seems to be close to the family and have more details to come. See [https://twitter.com/search?q=%40malcolmt%20&src=typd](https:/...
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The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least - donna http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03tier.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin ====== donna Ray Kurzweil might be wrong about many of the future developments he predicts, but I'll bet that's generally _not_ because of technological issues. ..great quote : “My colleague ...
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Ask HN: Is Techcrunch better post-Arrington? - cavalcade Is it me or Techcrunch became less tabloid-y lately and amped up the quality of writing since Arrington got pushed out? How do you find the blog's quality now? ====== al_james It seems to talk about watches more. ------ thigbee Seems the same to me.
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Faster password hashes cracking based on the DES algorithm on CPUs - pwg http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11212 ====== pwg Password Gorilla : <https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki> Store much longer, more complicated, passwords, without having to remember them.
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Uber Partners with Betterment to Offer Drivers I.R.A.s - JumpCrisscross http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/business/dealbook/uber-partners-with-betterment-to-offer-drivers-iras.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20160825&nl=dealbook&nl_art=9&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0 ====== sharemywin they sound more and more lik...
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Show HN: Strapdown.js - Instant and elegant Markdown documents - arturadib http://strapdownjs.com ====== fijter I like the use of markdown for this kind of purpose but i'd rather just compile from markdown to the generated HTML and put that online for a better user experience (no flash of unstyled markdown content) ...
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Ask HN: International Standard for Programming in Safety-Critical Environments? - anticensor Why do most of us ignore those standards in safety-critical environments such as automotive, aviation, banking? ====== airbreather There is a whole family, with the parent being IEC61508. Then 61511, 62026, etc etc. TUV and E...
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Which domain extensions are startups using in 2020? - jamesnames https://jamesnames.com/2020/05/data-driven-which-extensions-are-startups-using-in-2020/ ====== jamesnames Hey everyone! I've done an analysis of 991 startups that have been launched in 2020 to see what kind of domain extensions are popular. Knowing the ...
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How secure is Linux's random number generator? - hpaavola http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-July/004728.html ====== nullc The annoying thing is that the Linux RNG is really limiting without something like RdRand. It used to be that most drivers contributed to the randomness pool, so it seldom ran...
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This USB Drive Is Just Thicker than a Penny and Holds 2TB - mccooscoos http://www.netbooknews.com/33811/2tb-usb-the-size-of-your-finger-nail/ ====== MaysonL And is almost certainly vaporware, at least as far as a 2TB version available any time soon is concerned. ------ tobylane SDXC cards can also go up to 2TB, you...
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Australia Powers Up the World’s Biggest Battery – Courtesy of Elon Musk - QAPereo https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/australia/elon-musk-south-australia-battery.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=2&versio...
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The car century was a mistake. It’s time to move on - ph0rque https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/02/29/the-car-century-was-a-mistake-its-time-to-move-on/ ====== ph0rque _Good public transport coupled with fast, safe, pleasant walking and bicycling can easily meet the need for movement within our cit...
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Dell Closes $60B Merger with EMC - jonbaer http://www.wsj.com/articles/dell-closes-60-billion-merger-with-emc-1473252540 ====== chollida1 The new company services 98% of all fortune 500 companies. That's a pretty incredible reach. And 140,000 employee's. If I were a betting main, I'd expect that number to drop in the ...
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Virtual Reality applications and games, next big thing or another bust? - runewell How does the HN crowd feel about the upcoming return of VR? Anyone here order an an Oculus Rift dev kit from Kickstarter like me? Anyone actually try the device out first-hand? ====== runewell Some things you guys may find interesting...
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Ask HN: Am I too late with my startup idea? - Justen My friend and I have been working on an idea that we believe has great potential. This was somewhat validated by hearing yesterday that a competitor is releasing their product at the end of the month which is very similar to ours. However, we've only been working ...
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An example of Docker multi-stage building with Golang - nodejs-news https://github.com/itwars/Docker-multi-stage-build ====== nodejs-news Any feedback ?
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An Idea for Good Procrastination - fluffster I keep checking HN again and again throughout the day. And I don't get anything out of it. I would like to use my habit to do something useful.<p>I don't think this is the same as contributing to an open source project. I want to lower the barrier to entry and get over ak...
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Next browser 1.3.0: your Lisp daily driver - jmercouris The Lisp browser you&#x27;ve dreamed of is finally here! Next 1.3.0 has enough features necessary to completely ditch Chrome and make Next your full time browser.<p>About Next:<p>Next is a keyboard-oriented, extensible web-browser designed for power users. It&#x2...
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Prosthetic Limbs, Controlled by Thought - clebio http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/technology/a-bionic-approach-to-prosthetics-controlled-by-thought.html ====== grej Really fantastic work by the team at the Johns Hopkins APL. It's amazing to see the struggles Mr. Baugh goes through, and then his reaction to having use...
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Lucian Asks, Why Sports? (180 CE) - pepys https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sports-games/lucian-asks-why-sports ====== Stratoscope The date may be off by a few hundred years, but isn't the essential message of sports the same? We must win, and they must lose. They are not us, and when we win, as we surely will do, the...
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Rails in the Cloud: AWS, Heroku, and Morph - jeggers5 http://www.digitalhobbit.com/2008/11/13/rails-in-the-cloud-aws-heroku-and-morph/ ====== terrellm FYI this article is from November 2008
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Ask HN: Why isn't there a "search" on HN? - terrykohla ====== gee_totes Ironically not the first time this question has come up: [https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=why+isn%27...](https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=why+isn%27t+there+a+search+on+HN) ------ uslic001 No footer if you have conti...
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Ask HN: Good license for public academic notes? - noobermin I&#x27;m a physics graduate student at a large US university somewhere. I&#x27;m planning to post on the web publicly a number of examples and walk-throughs of textbooks (like working out equations in between the steps) just for my sake and for anyone&#x27;...
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What is category 19 of ITAR reserved for? - iaw http://pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/documents/official_itar/2012/ITAR_Part_121.pdf ====== runlevel1 Category XIX is a placeholder for a proposed rule to clarify what constitutes a "gas turbine engine" for export control purposes. It's primarily intended to allevi...
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Move off the venerable Newtonsoft.Json library and move to System.Text.Json - nilsandrey https://www.hanselman.com/blog/UpdatingMyASPNETPodcastSiteToSystemTextJsonFromNewtonsoftJson.aspx ====== tomashubelbauer Worth reading the comments on this one. People don't seem to have such an easy time switching, because a lot ...
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The Future of Digital Products is in Storytelling - dmadray https://medium.com/design-of-a-technology-business/21e841927513 ====== fishk Great read on storytelling. One point I'd be interested on your thoughts is how data drives the story. How do you know you're telling the right story?
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Implementing a trustless security with hardware wallets and multisignature - nvk https://medium.com/@Ledger/implementing-a-trustless-security-solution-with-hardware-wallets-and-multisignature-8f50732c6f4c ====== nvk \- Here is a link to a guide on setting it up [http://blog.coinkite.com/post/116127008376/](http://bl...
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A unifying approach for controlling flying robotic insects - dnetesn https://techxplore.com/news/2019-11-approach-robotic-insects.html ====== sixplusone >[...] for insect-scale micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) uh, "Insect-Scale" == 'FW'? WTF.
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Behind the Lion Air Crash, a Trail of Decisions Kept Pilots in the Dark - simonbr https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/world/asia/lion-air-plane-crash-pilots.html ====== del82 Based only on what I read in this article, I can kind of see Boeing's point? From what I understand, the procedure/checklist for an uncommanded n...
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Ask HN: Can I write all my doco using markdown? - DamonOehlman OK. I'm tired of having to use Word, Pages, whatever the word processor is when it just seems to get in the way of getting words and information down.<p>I coding and website land I have pretty much transitioned to using markdown everywhere thanks to (joD...
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Nuxt's $2M Seed Round - rmason https://nuxtjs.org/blog/seed-round ====== rmason Further proof that even the large VC firms won't put somebody on a plane to Paris or Detroit. Even for something as huge as Nuxt. If you're not willing to travel to the Valley it's really like you don't exist. I've been using Nuxt for som...
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Namecheap.com emergency maintenance - medmunds http://status.namecheap.com/archives/27188 ====== davb I've been planning to diversify my domain registrars recently, and have seen plenty of discussions on HN comparing the alternatives. While I'm looking at possibly splitting registrations across other registrars, I'm m...
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Building a resolution-independent iOS 8 app - ckoglmeier http://craftsy.me/1smzoYO ====== ckoglmeier Hey all, OP here. We've noticed a number of posts (on HN and elsewhere) from iOS developers concerned about iOS8 - and more specifically the new iPhone screen sizes and their impact on the asset creation/delivery/st...
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Carl Malamud’s Lawsuit-Fighting Kickstarter to Put Public Standards Online - tmoretti http://nextcity.org/sharedcity/entry/carl-malamuds-lawsuit-fighting-kickstarter-campaign-to-put-public-standards ====== thinkcomp The docket for the lawsuit Carl is fighting can be found here: [http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/ca...
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China Bitcoin Roundtable Votes for SegWit2x and New York Agreement - jonsouth http://bitsonline.com/china-bitcoin-roundtable-segwit2x/ ====== TalonTech So they are moving forward and trying to stay compatible. That might make Bitcoin even more expensive.
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Raspberry Pi Microwave - zw123456 http://madebynathan.com/2013/07/10/raspberry-pi-powered-microwave/ ====== jloughry You have an interesting approach: more or less a wrapper function around the original API^h^h^hUI. It has the advantage of preserving the—presumably verified, and maybe even certified—safety protocols...
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After 20M Downloads On Android, Japan’s Bitcellar Brings FxCamera To iOS - tarof http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/26/bitcellar-fxcamera/ ====== shao1555 coolest camera app!
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Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own - aaronbrethorst https://www.wsj.com/articles/sheryl-sandberg-leans-into-a-gale-of-bad-news-at-facebook-1536085230 ====== UpshotKnothole Even if Facebook actually wanted to change, intended to change and put time, money, and talent to the task this ...
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Show HN: Browser extension to open videos in mpv - baldomo https://github.com/Baldomo/open-in-mpv ====== baldomo Hi everyone, author here. I was quite impressed to use this functionality in the awesome iina player [1], but it a Mac-only app so I made this for Linux and I plan to make it work also on Windows and Mac. I...
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Duct Tape Considered Harmful - markdennehy http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/duct-tape-considered-harmful/ ====== tptacek I have a bad feeling that this Spolsky post --- which I liked, for what it's worth --- is going to spark a very long, very boring testing vs. shipping controversy, in which both ...
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Text Mining Wikipedia for Misspelled Words - shrikant http://jonsview.com/text-mining-wikipedia-for-misspelled-words ====== mukyu Odd that they didn't use the API or action=raw to get the wikitext and instead just scraped and went digging. It would require post-processing anyways (rip out templates, wikilinks, reflis...
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So you'd like to... become a mathematical finance quant starting from scratch - ekm2 http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/RDXHW9HPBHCOT/ref=cm_syt_fvlm_f_1_rlrsrs0 ====== frugalfirbolg In passing it looks like a nice reading list. What motivated you to study this topic and are there any achievements ...
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Google BigQuery hits the gym to beef up even more - vgt https://shinesolutions.com/2016/08/19/google-bigquery-hits-the-gym-to-beef-up-even-more/ ====== vgt Here is the blog describing the Capacitor storage engine (successor to ColumnIO, which was the inspiration for Parquet): [https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2...
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Elon Musk, of PayPal and Tesla Fame, Is Broke - VictorHo http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/sorkin-elon-musk-of-paypal-and-tesla-fame-is-broke/ ====== kls This article is so typical of sensationalism reporting. Individuals Like Mr. Musk, are able to take advantage of the separation of entities that a corpo...
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JRuby 9000 released - headius http://blog.jruby.org/2015/07/jruby_9000/ ====== aurochs JRuby is a great idea. It has one pitfall which consistently stops me from using it though : poor support with newer releases of Rails, usually due to the Active Record stack not working well with the AR JDBC adapter. I know som...
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Yaml load denial-of-service - taha_jahangir https://gist.github.com/tahajahangir/c079bf554786b7a68310 ====== TimWolla Billion laughs ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs)) strikes again.
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Lexus hoverboard in motion - bitzerlander https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAzM9kTvC0&feature=youtu.be&sf11678837=1 ====== paulhauggis It needs a magnetic surface to work. How is this practical? ~~~ DanBC Skateboard parks; amusement parks. ~~~ bitzerlander Maybe a prototype for magnetic roads and hover cars? ~~~ ...
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Linux (In)Security - djsumdog https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html ====== stuzenz I wonder if Redox (rust OS project) will take off one day. A lot of the goals of the project seem to line up well with dealing with issues noted in the post. A huge endeavour of course - to build an OS from the ground up...
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Ask HN: is lean startup applicable to B2B? - pilap82 I'm looking for some feedback from entrepreneurs who launched B2B companies to understand what parts of lean startup methodology are relevant or not. Typically: experimenting might be tricky when your users have to perform a business process which is (supposedly) ...
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Proof That Startups Don't Care About Privacy - jnorthrop http://jnorthrop.me/2012/02/18/proof-startups-dont-care-about-privacy/ ====== kmfrk Whether you agree or not, I think we are approaching a situation where our trust in fledgling start-ups, popular or not, is in decline. Just browse the names: Twitter, Path, Inst...
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First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces - legostormtroopr https://www.aristotlemetadata.com/blog/2020/08/first-impressions-github-codespaces.html ====== setzer22 While impressive technology, I still get that eerie feeling of my computer's ownership being slowly taken away from me. The problem is not Github codespaces o...
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Tiny Humanoid Robot Learning to Fly Real Airplanes - eplanit http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/tiny-humanoid-robot-learning-to-fly-real-airplanes ====== tinyhumanoid I'm not sure how I feel about the IEE Spectrum site having near youtube level trolls.
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I know my lack of extreme excitement can be off-putting - domino http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/09/my-lack-of-extreme-excitement-can-be-off-putting.html ====== timr Amen. I'm exactly the same way. There should be a support group. Worse than being merely off-putting, I think it actively hurts, personally and...
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Facebook Users Are Fans of Entertainment - jfarmer http://20bits.com/2008/05/19/facebook-users-are-fans-of-entertainment/ ====== barryfandango Fans of entertainment? So they're entertained by things they find entertaining. Great headline! ~~~ jfarmer Thanks for the constructive feedback. Both your wit and your insi...
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At What Point Should You Start to Freak Out About Climate Change? (video) - mooreds http://time.com/5575658/bill-mckibben-climate-change-falter/?xid=tcoshare ====== basicplus2 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Climate Change
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Flavors of Frustration (2017) - tobr https://www.foddy.net/2017/01/eleven-flavors-of-frustration/ ====== sdwr Wonderful post. I love writing that builds a bridge to internal sensation. Will the kind of feelings described here ever be modeled accurately? ~~~ rzzzt Is all frustration felt in different parts of the dige...
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Man Sued Winklevoss Twins in 2009, Saying They Stole Company Stake From Him - aepstein http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40593836/ns/business-us_business/ ====== grellas This suit was filed in December _2009_ and I'm not sure why it is being reported now as if it were a new filing. The procedural context is intriguing, tho...
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What other communities do you frequent online? - Tichy ====== Tichy Wondering if you are taking part in any other online communities. Myself, I don't even know many places to visit. Sometimes I indulge in discussions on Slashdot-like pages (not a really community), another place is a closed community run by a friend,...
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Interpretable Machine Learning - skilled https://christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/ ====== lalaland1125 "Interpretability" is probably one of the most misunderstood topics in ML. The key with interpretability is that it's actually an Human Computer Interaction (HCI) problem, not a statistics or math problem. ...
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SHOW HK: Changed phone can't login my gmail account ever again. Any help? - ttty2 Just trying to log in my old gmail account with correct email and password and they ask me to verify my old phone number and the date I created that account.<p>Without this information, the account is completely lost forever. Thank you G...
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Microsoft gets SaaS-y with Albany - maurycy http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/18/microsoft-gets-saas-y-with-albany/ ====== wmf This doesn't look like SaaS to me. It's software rental. I'm sure a lot of customers don't know what the difference is, though, and it probably benefits MS to confuse the two. ------ maurycy Thi...
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BlackBerry Met With Facebook Last Week to Discuss Potential Bid - kloncks http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304655104579165781081533064-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwOTEyNDkyWj ====== boyter I always thought that Blackberry would be a strategic buy for Oracle. They would then be in a position to provide near e...
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Hover: Possible Unauthorized Access - chmars I have just noticed the following mail from Hover in my inbox:<p><i>Dear Hover Customer,</i><p><i>We are writing to let you know that we reset your password today. If you are unable to log into your Hover account, you will need to use the “I forgot my password” option on ...
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Ask HN: How much do you earn (and save) as a software engineer in bay area? - symbolepro - Please tell your no. of years of experience.<p>- And whether it is a startup or fortune 500 company. ====== kull Answers to this question may give people wrong impression if you do not include a cost of living in the bay area. S...
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Learn the ropes of Mobile Services with Brent Simmons (iOS/Windows Azure) - leejoramo http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ios/ ====== leejoramo Interesting to see long time Mac/iOS developer Brent Simmons collaborating with Microsoft in this way. Is MS beginning to adapt to the realities of mobile? I se...
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Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty incident - tptacek http://epmonthly.com/article/not-heroes-wear-capes-one-las-vegas-ed-saved-hundreds-lives-worst-mass-shooting-u-s-history/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top-stories ====== tptacek I felt like the...
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India's Philanthropist-Surgeon Delivers Cardiac Care Henry Ford-Style - kanamekun http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/01/05/375142025/india-s-philanthropist-delivers-cardiac-surgery-henry-ford-style ====== kanamekun These guys are using the same "pay what you can" model that Dr. V is using to treat eyes at Ar...
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So much for "Rhapsody won't bow to Apple's subscription policy" - boctor http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/sof/2227161489.html ====== boctor 2/15: Rhapsody won't bow to Apple's subscription policy <http://engt.co/gY3gHO> 2/21: Rhapsody posts Craigslist ad for iPhone developer <http://j.mp/dVv4vQ> Screenshot in case ...
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