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How to create loading image using CSS only - drugget http://web-tricks.org/content/how-create-loading-image-using-css-only ====== victormustar I'm sorry but this looks awful. it could be -> [https://jsfiddle.net/cp3r5bmk/](https://jsfiddle.net/cp3r5bmk/) ~~~ exprA That isn't even relatively close to being the same an...
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3D Food Printers Could Change What You Eat - prostoalex http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/3d-food-printers-how-they-could-change-what-you-eat/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=DT%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=DT%20Newsletter%202015-04-26 ====== tehchromic OK, not arguing with the premise of the article...
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MIT OpenCourseWare + VideoLectures.net - sebastjanm http://videolectures.net/mit_ocw/ ====== netcan * OCW is not an MIT education. * OCW does not grant degrees or certificates. * OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty. * Materials may not reflect entire content of the course. ...
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Ask HN: What language should I learn first? - mhorne27 I want to learn to code. Which language should I start with, and why? Just signed up for Codeacademy... ====== tel There will be a thousand opinions. Ignore them. The problem is that you're asking the wrong question. If you want to "get into" programming you nee...
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2 Middle-Aged Women doing a startup blog - karencrye http://karentcrye.posthaven.com/2-middle-aged-women-applying-to-ycombinator ====== quotient I think it's super-cool that you're applying to YC and not dissuaded by the gender- or age-related stereotypes. Power to you! A few constructive remarks: * If you've got a...
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An Extensive List of Everything That Might Be Causing the “Vaping Illness” - smacktoward https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/vaping-illness-causes-exhaustive-list.html ====== pastyboy might want to look at who owns the vape companies and maybe understand why its in their interest to make users afraid of using vape's ...
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Former US President George HW Bush Dead at 94 - dredmorbius https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/president-george-hw-bush-dead-94-181201050728895.html ====== mwnivek Earlier discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575397](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575397)
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Ask HN: What are the next big niche products right now ? - gomangogo What is the next Facebook, next Bitcoin, next Instagram, next Google...etc. In short, what are the next niche products right now. ====== rman666 For a product to become huge it has to be general and appeal to many users, not niche. If someone knew wh...
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Speed and Tempo: Fearless decision making for start-ups - dennykmiu http://entrepreneur.venturebeat.com/2010/01/28/speed-and-tempo-fearless-decision-making-for-start-ups/ ====== dennykmiu A very good read for any first-time entrepreneurs. My own experience is that there are two kinds of decisions in startups, one th...
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Search articles on golang - creatinePump https://qolleqt.com/collect/golang/search ====== creatinePump Message me @ usedforprinting123@gmail.com if I'm missing any sources/articles and I can add them to this.
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Stumptown Acquired by Pete's Coffee and Tea - bndw https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/blog/a-note ====== Implicated I think that's *Peet's
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Amazon Confirms EC2/S3 Not PCI Level 1 Compliant - nreece http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=139547#139662 ====== jrockway Hopefully this will discourage people from storing credit card data. I would much rather buy something from you via Paypal, Google, or Amazon than give you my in...
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Ask HN: Compile Rust to WebAssembly for EOS Smart Contract? - rayvy So I&#x27;m familiar with the fact that the supported language for EOS smart contracts is C++. However, the EOS docs mention that even the C++ needs to compile down to WebAssembly.<p>So my question is, could I write my EOS smart contract in Rust, and ...
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Average American Has Just 4 Hours, 26 Minutes of Free Time per Week - spking https://www.studyfinds.org/survey-average-american-free-time-week/ ====== rococode Anyone else think at least part of this survey feels off? Specifically, the big red flag to me is: > Researchers also put together a list of the top ten thing...
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Ask HN: How many lines of code per day? - swix How many lines of code do you write per day on average? Whats your record? Please specify in what language, im curious ====== j_baker Dunno. SLOC just isn't an important enough metric to track. Here's an example of why that is: [http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?pro...
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Show HN: Treev – Search Bar for Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and Trello (Chrome) - bendyBus http://treev.co ====== d1ffuz0r I'm so missing these old days [http://www.productsthathateyou.com/wp- content/uploads/2011/0...](http://www.productsthathateyou.com/wp- content/uploads/2011/06/ie-toolbar-bloat1.jpg) ------ avi...
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Best and smart job search app - tikshi https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jobsquench/id993109151?mt=8 ====== tikshi Came across this job search app which is very simple and excellent, no CV and loads of profile creation, just few keywords makes the difference. ------ jeffehobbs s-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p--aaaammmm
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Superconductivity near room temperature - Elof https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01583-y ====== PuffinBlue The interesting thing about this is that the work neatly fitted with existing theory: > Drozdov et al. observed this isotope effect and found that, compared with > the lanthanum hydride samples, the cri...
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McGee Days Two and Three: Steak, Fish, Burgers and Love « Cooking Issues - wooster http://cookingissues.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/mcgee-days-two-and-three-steak-fish-burgers-and-love/ ====== wooster One of my favorite posts on one of my favorite cooking blogs. I'm a particular fan of the computer modeling of the effec...
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Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (2013) - evo_9 https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/ ====== dahart > 4\. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of > that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. This one reminds me of writing advice from South P...
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Harmonized standards and EU directives (2014) - Tomte http://www.2uo.de/harmonized-standards-eu-directives/ ====== Normal_gaussian These are very useful when somebody else tells you which one applies to you, and you end up with a reasonably simple standard to check against. Finding the right damn standard, and checki...
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Show HN: TinyHelp - binaryorganic http://tinyhelp.net ====== binaryorganic To be clear, this isn't really intended as a service for the HN crowd... just wanted to get some feedback on a quick/dirty product we put together. We're doing a writeup later about our plans for it, but the long and short is that we've built...
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How to Hide/Encrypt HTML Source Code - MelissaDawson http://blog.teamgrowth.net/index.php/security/how-to-hideencrypt-html-source-code ====== dramaticus3 That's hilarious. Thanks for that. > be sure that encryption code is not visible at client’s browser. Good luck with that
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Lucretius saw no boundary between scientific interests and ethical claims - Hooke https://aeon.co/essays/lucretius-the-flat-earth-and-the-malaise-of-modern-science ====== bambax > _Lucretius’s poem, dedicated to Memmius, was an attempt to convince the > boorish Roman that he was obliterating a site of importance._ [C...
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Cure for cancer might accidentally have been found, and it could be malaria - sreya http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cure-for-cancer-might-accidentally-have-been-found-and-it-could-be-malaria-a6693601.html?cmpid=facebook-post ====== earcaraxe It's not a cure, a malaria protein could be used as a delivery meth...
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Zenefits cuts nearly 50% of workforce - elsewhen http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-layoffs-cut-nearly-500-employees-full-email-2017-2 ====== StClaire I first heard of Zenefits when the CEO withdrew a job offer for someone who asked (anonymously) on Quora if they should accept an offer from Uber or Zenefits. The ...
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Where ORMs go wrong - kapv89 https://medium.com/@kapv89/where-orms-go-wrong-a3d593f8c02f#.8877oxfyy ====== rajivseelam Nice
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In Bangladesh, the majority of e-commerce now happens on Facebook - gyre007 https://restofworld.org/2020/bangladesh-economy-runs-on-facebook/ ====== oefrha To be clear I know nothing about Bangladesh, but obvious contradictions cast doubt on this piece of reporting. An obvious one: subtitle says _In Bangladesh, the...
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First Tesla Taxi in America after 100k miles - danso https://electrek.co/2016/08/16/first-tesla-taxi-in-america-after-100000-miles-why-every-taxi-driver-should-consider-going-electric/ ====== Maarten88 In the Netherlands there are many Tesla taxis, especially around Amsterdam and Schiphol airport. Taxis drive more tha...
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Ask HN: How can I quit smoking? - bqdscx I have a fairly stressful life and when I come home in the evening I like to have a few cigarettes which helps me to relax. I don&#x27;t smoke during the day at all, but those few cigarettes in the evening are the highlight of my day. I&#x27;d like to quit smoking, but what cou...
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Car-Mounted Ads Take a New Direction: Data Collection - pseudolus https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/11/firefly-digital-advertising-driver-pay-uber-lyft-cars-data/602077/ ====== shostack I couldn't help but notice some of the internal comms wires that were seemingly crossed between Firefly's CRO and their Pro...
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Conscientious Objection and Alternative Service - keehun https://www.sss.gov/FSconsobj.htm ====== mooism2 I'm confused. I thought the USA had abolished conscription?
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The Aesthetics of Data Storage - jgv http://hyperallergic.com/58330/the-aesthetics-of-data-storage/ ====== kylemaxwell I've often wondered, though, how much of the "blinking lights" factor is useful and how much is just to impress clients (or to entertain us geek sysadmin types :D ).
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DownorNot is down - vimota http://www.downornot.com/ ====== biot Someone likely used up their free quota: OverQuotaError: The API call datastore_v3.RunQuery() required more quota than is available. I'm guessing that running a query on initial load is likely for capturing metrics. This sh...
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Piracy: are we being conned? - MetallicCloud http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/piracy-are-we-being-conned-20110322-1c4cs.html ====== ryan-allen As an Australian, hypothetically our US counterparts are often viewing and discussing brand new popular television as it comes out in America. In Australia, hy...
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I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch - coloneltcb https://medium.com/tendigi-insights/i-installed-windows-95-on-my-apple-watch-589fda5e36d ====== xirdstl Impressive! I remember upgrading to Windows 95 back in the day so I could play Diablo. My PC struggled at the time. It's amazing the kind of portable computing p...
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Facebook open sources its servers and data centers - arithmetic http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-open-sources-its-servers-and-data-centers/ ====== codex This is a strategic attack on Google. A proliferation of scalable data centers hurts Google a lot more than Facebook by enabling Google's competitors. Cheap computat...
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The New Yorker Strongbox - danso http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ ====== pilif I was discussing with a colleague whether tor is still trustworthy these days: running exit nodes without ending up in jail or thrown out by your ISP becomes more and more difficult (if it's not impossible already). Also tor still gets a...
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Ask HN: Is there radiation fallout risk in California? - Aegean What would be the risk of unhealthy radiation fallout in California? Could the radiation clouds move over the Pacific?<p>Also these geiger counters, is it something civilians could buy and use? ====== 3pt14159 [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/radiation-...
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Ask HN: Will IDN domains ever get browser support? - _eht Is anyone spearheading acceptance anymore? FF used to do something really vague but that seems dead. What are the reasons why it is still stagnant? ====== runnr_az It doesn't seem like it. I tried for awhile to move the needle on emoji domains, got nowhere.......
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Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser - tombh https://www.brow.sh ====== tombh Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed int...
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F5 networks announced SPDY gateway - igrigorik http://www.slideshare.net/f5dotcom/f5-ado-slide-share ====== jgrahamc Since SPDY is layered beneath HTTP it's relatively easy to roll out. At CloudFlare we plan to roll out SPDY when it is available as part of nginx because it will mean that can enable it for our custom...
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Billionaire’s Secret Buyout Formula: 110 Instructions and an Intelligence Test - mgav https://www.wsj.com/articles/billionaires-secret-buyout-formula-110-instructions-and-an-intelligence-test-1531151197 ====== pinewurst This was interesting and it immediately made me retrieve a list of their companies so I can avoid a...
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Imogen Heap doesn’t make the blockchain hype make sense either (2015) - davidgerard http://rocknerd.co.uk/2015/12/02/imogen-heap-doesnt-make-the-blockchain-hype-make-sense-either/ ====== merkleme Whilst the article makes some descent points, namely its pretty hard to buy the track if you don't already own BTC/ETH,I ca...
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You should read Elon Musk's Wikipedia article. - Mizza http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Career ====== christocracy Bloomberg did a "Risk Takers" feature on him; quite good. <http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184/> ------ spiffistan That stuff reads like the biography of a real-life Tony Stark. ~~~ Mizza F...
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Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go - guessmyname https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless ====== notamy Do note that this is very much against the Discord TOS; the README does say "WARNING: Self-bots are discouraged and against Discords TOS.", but for clarity, anything considered "user account a...
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Searchify hits a million queries a day to IndexTank search API - mthreat http://blog.searchify.com/2012/03/searchify-serving-a-million-queries-per-day/ ====== avree Really confusing title. Searchify is hitting a million queries a day to their own API, and also selling themselves as an IndexTank replacement (since In...
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Omni: The "Oculus Rift" of 3D Treadmills - mikeknoop http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-naturally-in-your-favorite-game/ ====== mikeknoop The "aha" moment for me, as an outsider to this industry, is using a special shoe to reduce friction and increase lateral stability versus only focusing on dev...
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Soulmate lost. RIP Aaron Swartz - mattdeboard http://alexdong.com/soulmate-lost-rip-aaron-swartz/ ====== krmboya "we have to pick a battle that worth fighting for and be prepared for the hard, long, lonely journey" I think that's an important takeaway from this most unfortunate incident. ------ prezjordan I wonder...
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India to order taxi aggregators like Uber, Ola to go electric - abhi3 https://in.reuters.com/article/us-india-electric-autos-exclusives/exclusive-india-to-order-taxi-aggregators-like-uber-ola-to-go-electric-idINKCN1T71DU ====== ShirsenduK * Uber/Ola do not own cars, and the owners take out loans to get one. Electric c...
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Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time - Deinos http://nautil.us/blog/forget-everything-you-think-you-know-about-time ====== jnurmine I am not really skilled in physics and have never understood why time would be a tangible dimension like, say, width or height, instead of a mathematical construct...
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In a court hearing, oil companies publicly backed the science of climate change - eaguyhn https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/22/17151532/climate-tutorial-san-francisco-oakland-lawsuits-judge-alsup-chevron-exxon ====== PaulKeeble The science has been settled since the 1970's. Since then it has been a political issue and f...
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Magic Leap – another unicorn startup joins the line of Enrons of Internet era - baybal2 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/12/09/1535221/magic-leap-used-fake-tech-demos-and-is-years-behind-schedule ====== ElijahLynn This is poor quality. Magic Leap is still unique to Hololens and they have always had a very "long game...
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Airbnb to collect hotel taxes for San Francisco rentals - zmitri http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Airbnb-to-collect-hotel-taxes-for-San-Francisco-5365352.php ====== calbear81 "We know from countless discussions with our hosts that they want to pay taxes, but some of these rules are arcane and difficult to foll...
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Ask HN: Just launched. Zero users. No clue how to market. Resource suggestions? - m52go I&#x27;m individually messaging folks on reddit who&#x27;ve indicated interest, or who are very likely to be interested. I&#x27;m following and interacting with relevant industry folks on Twitter. I&#x27;m going to begin reaching...
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Tcd.vim: Tab-specific directories in Vim - oinksoft https://github.com/oinksoft/tcd.vim ====== oinksoft This is something I extracted from a plugin I wrote years ago, proj.vim. It is sometimes quite useful to be able to set a different working directory in a tab on the fly, particularly if you use tools that default...
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Show HN: Review my Startup - Sqardius - sqardius Sqardius allows you to share and view pictures around you, and save them for others who will be there later.<p>Here the link: http://www.sqardius.net ====== jfaucett I'd like to give as much helpful criticism as possible, but I can't say much about the general idea, d...
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What's Wrong with Tech Folks Who Attack the Tech Media. and What's Wrong with T - todsacerdoti https://hunterwalk.com/2020/02/15/whats-wrong-with-tech-folks-who-attack-the-tech-media-and-whats-wrong-with-tech-media-today/ ====== tonicb Now this is something that has been in my mind for some while now. I actually think...
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Procter & Gamble Launches Widget To Convert Clicks into Water - mars http://mashable.com/2010/10/25/pg-water-widget/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29 ====== michael_dorfman Isn't Mashable just a bit embarrassed about acting as an unpaid arm of P&G's PR department? O...
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Show HN: Robotic pour-over coffee - cvdfer http://www.poursteady.com ====== rdtsc This looks really cool. I haven't tried the pour-over coffee, yet. Still using a french press. Other members of the family are using a cheap-o single cup generic coffee maker (the drip kind). I have tried the coffee from both (both ta...
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Two Americas: The wage gap between the states has stopped closing - eplanit https://www.axios.com/poverty-geography-economics-america-wage-gap-mobility-3bac216a-4aa6-41fe-b9e2-eca20623c008.html ====== Magnet_hammer I agree that most nowadays don't have the resources to move and are stuck in their hometowns with limite...
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Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox - robinhowlett https://github.com/robinhowlett/chart-parser ====== joosters Very interesting! I had never heard of Apache PDFBox before, I must give it a try. I have a similar program that parses horse racing PDFs from sites such as www.racehorserunner.com - whic...
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Millionaire John McAfee Arrested in Dominican Republic - wslh https://news.yahoo.com/millionaire-john-mcafee-arrested-dominican-232017508.html ====== lostgame 'They were suspected of traveling on a yacht carrying high-caliber weapons, ammunition and military-style gear, officials said.' This sounds entirely about rig...
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Show HN: A Collection of Stories About People Who Landed Their Dream Tech Job - sciencewolf https://algodaily.com/stories ====== sciencewolf This is a collection of stories about folks who got their dream job. When I was looking to break into tech, I found it was really useful to talk to people who were in the field, ...
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Entrepreneurs in America: Who creates jobs? - ActVen http://www.economist.com/news/business/21577106-immigrants-do-who-creates-jobs?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/who_creates_jobs_ ====== makmanalp This comes in time with the whole debacle of the H-1B lottery being triggered this year due to too many people applying within 5 days o...
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Shellac: extend Chrome with unix shell commands - sigil https://github.com/acg/shellac ====== sid0 Wow, the way you're doing it seems really convoluted. I wonder if using an NPAPI plugin would be easier? I know this would be tons easier as a Firefox extension. ~~~ sigil > I wonder if using an NPAPI plugin would be ...
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Ask HN: Is it unethical to make a business derived from inside joke with friend - wafflez180 I’m starting a business which the idea was derived from an inside joke between my friend and I. The joke mentioned an imaginary product, but we never considered to take it seriously. Half a year later, I haven’t spoken to him ...
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Adi.js - mariusbalaj https://github.com/balajmarius/Adi.js ====== skrowl This is broken. Going to [http://mariusbalaj.com/dev/Adi.js/](http://mariusbalaj.com/dev/Adi.js/) in Win 10 / Firefox 43 (dev ed / aurora) + uBlock Origin 1.2.1 + all 3rd party filters clicked other than multipurpose & easylist w/o element hidin...
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RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor - sachalep https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat ====== primigenus Funnily enough there are actually multiple Slack-like chat app projects underway in the Meteor community. I guess building a chat app is the new building a todo list app? Yesterday at Meteor's ...
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A 2001 Quote From Sergey Brin Explains Duckduckgo's Popularity - tenpoundhammer http://www.tenpoundhammer.com/2012/02/2001-quote-from-sergey-brin-explains.html ====== farlington It's really tough to switch search engines when Google's results are so good the majority of the time. The crux of the problem is that you...
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Automatic Deployment via git - pwim http://blog.mobalean.com/2009/02/06/automatic-deployment-via-git ====== ryanmahoski Yep git rocks and I think yours is a useful recipe. For my needs I prefer herokugarden to running my own server. Cname with them was a snap plus everything is free and if the need arises I can upgr...
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XDA summary of the answers from Android's team AMA on Reddit - pjmlp http://www.xda-developers.com/heres-everything-we-learned-from-the-android-nougat-ama/ ====== mdaniel I think the post title would be clearer if written as "XDA summary of ...". If there is a better mechanism to offer this suggestion, please do let m...
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Green Building Goals and Security Initiatives Can Find Common Ground - stakent http://www.facilitiesnet.com/security/article/Green-Building-Goals-and-Security-Initiatives-Can-Find-Common-Ground--11349 ====== stakent Found via [http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/security_vs_su...](http://www.schneier.com/blo...
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Show HN: Recursive PNG Generator - sagebird http://algoind.com/PNG-Gen.html ====== scarredwaits Lego! define q (4 times) qq , , , , q, ,q ,, ------ sagebird I created this website. The thing I am exploring is recursively expanding a rectangular region. Th...
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CrunchFund, Angels Back Flowdock, A Group Chat Application For Teams - mutru http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/crunchfund-angels-back-flowdock-a-group-chat-application-for-teams/ ====== tseabrooks I don't think I get it. Signed up for a trial and I'm playing with it. But for me it feels like something that is about 1...
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The US reportedly considering blacklisting Chinese surveillance firm Hikvision - bluedino https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/us-reportedly-considering-blacklisting-chinas-hikvision.html ====== rasz Hikvision makes _very cheap_ good quality network cameras ... that you have to deploy behind a firewall to avoid [https://se...
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New things in clang land (5.0.0) - mrich http://www.productive-cpp.com/new-things-in-clang-land-5-0-0/ ====== ladberg Hmm, the first example kind of bugs me. I get why they are doing it, but I feel like there should be a better solution. Instead of cramming as much optimization into undefined behavior as you can, mayb...
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Debunking Myths about Gender and Mathematics Performance - gruseom http://ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf ====== StefanKarpinski It's difficult to fathom how the authors interpret the data on page 14 as _not_ supporting the hypothesis that there is a male/female variance ratio of circa 1.1. Figure 1A is a g...
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A broken cable smashed a hole 100 feet wide in the Arecibo Observatory - djsumdog https://www.businessinsider.com/broken-cable-tears-100-foot-hole-in-arecibo-observatory-2020-8 ====== rollulus I always assumed that the bottom of the dish was made out of concrete, but apparently it's relatively thin and floats above th...
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Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit - prostoalex https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/books/review/christine-lagorio-chafkin-we-are-the-nerds.html#click=https://t.co/FMrdDrVLue ====== gibba999 I don't think the right word is 'trolls,' so much as bullies. While there's a fair bit of trolling on reddit, wha...
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The Evil within operator == - AndreyKarpov https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0509/ ====== AndreyKarpov When you read it, please, don't run away. Please, return back and put a like. :) The article deserves to be known.
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Churchill's Subterranean WWII Bunker in London - pepys http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-churchills-secret-subterranean-wwii-bunker-in-london ====== joezydeco I've taken this tour, the amount of preservation and history down there is amazing. One of the most interesting things was a room that was explained ...
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Adobe tackling 'Flash cookie' privacy issue - taylorbuley http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20028397-264.html ====== jim_h Get the 'BetterPrivacy' extension for FireFox and it will help remove the Flash cookies. You can manually remove the cookies or have it automatically clear them on browser exit.
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Ask HN: How do I teach coding to someone who can't learn? - tryingtoteach Throwaway for various reasons.<p>My girlfriend is trying to learn to code. She has been doing various online courses for several months now and she is still an extreme beginner.<p>She wants to learn, and she is stubborn as hell, but things just ...
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Why computers have two zeros: +0 and -0 - johndcook http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06/15/why-computers-have-signed-zero/ ====== kapuzineralex It should be added that this of course only concerns floating point math.
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Breakout List – A list of the fastest growing startups - gilles_bertaux http://www.breakoutlist.com/ ====== hanley Abbreviating San Francisco to SF is understandable, but I wasn't sure if PA meant Pennsylvania or Palo Alto. ------ eric_khun Like the idea. Maybe you could add some international startups?
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Zuckerberg responds to privacy concerns - evancaine http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052303828.html ====== seliopou Without judgment, I think it's important to point out in that at no point did he admit that Facebook screwed up, nor did he at any point apologize for anything. ~~~ pa...
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Ask HN: Is AWS having issues right now? - shiloa We&#x27;re seeing connectivity issues around us-west-2 for the past hour (since around 3:30 AM PST). AWS status page is green as always. Is anyone else experiencing issues? ====== jrowley We our having issues getting access to RDS for our phabricator instance right now....
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Death of the Google Bomb - ALee http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/23/goodbye_google_bomb.html ====== Harkins In case you're wondering how on Earth this is possibly news, it's because Google just hosted a training session for journalists at their DC offices yesterday. Showed them Google sites and tools...
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How to Hire Your First Engineer - samdk https://triplebyte.com/blog/hiring-your-first-engineer ====== lingzb Can't agree more about prioritizing personal networks over everything else.
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How to install Docker/Kubernetes from scratch on OS X - mfburnett https://gist.github.com/Nikkau/8f4badc0d87871b5feb4 ====== tbarn Yay! I'm going to try it out later today. ------ mfburnett Probably the simplest/fastest setup guide I've seen to go from zero to a running Kubernetes cluster on OS X
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That Interstellar Asteroid Is Pretty Strange - okket http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2017/11/23/interstellar-asteroid-mystery/ ====== DanielleMolloy Here is the random astronomer on Reddit claiming that the community didn't rule out that it is an abandoned spaceship yet: [https://amp.reddit.com/r/space/comm...
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Alabama police raid home, take money out of man's wallet over $50 of marijuana - wallace_f https://reason.com/2019/04/12/alabama-cops-raided-their-house-seized-t ====== lifehacked This goes on all over the country. For every rotten officer that steals, there is a whole bushel back at the station that turn a blind eye ...
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Nginx on Wasmjit - wofo https://www.wasmjit.org/blog/nginx-on-wasmjit.html ====== gok Sounds like the big idea from Singularity (run everything in the same hardware security ring, use static analysis for memory safety) is going mainstream, incrementally. Unfortunate that this is happening right as it becomes clear tha...
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Suster: Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not? - daviday http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/12/27/should-startups-focus-on-profitability-or-not/?awesm=bothsid.es_GkX&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=bothsid.es-twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=awesm-publisher ====== orthecreedence I don't think it makes sense t...
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How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments - signa11 http://www.usrsb.in/How-Old-School-C-Programmers-Process-Arguments.html ====== tomsmeding I have to say, to reasonably experienced C programmers, this code should be pretty clear. If you need that whole paragraph to understand (* ++argv)[0], you might be an awes...
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Ask HN: Best way to hire a CTO in Silicon Valley? - netaustin My development firm, based in NYC, has a client in Silicon Valley. They are seeking a CTO to work with us before the site launches and to grow an internal team thereafter.<p>We're in a niche where this is pretty common, and the development idiom of the i...
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Google is down - efader http://www.google.com ====== taylorbuley Not from where I'm typing ~~~ richchan Unless he meant the stock - it did go down a bit in the afternoon today. =p ------ georgemcbay Google was down for me for about 4 minutes today. I'm in San Diego. I don't recall what time it was exactly but it w...
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Why the Economic Fates of America’s Cities Diverged - prostoalex http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/cities-economic-fates-diverge/417372/?single_page=true ====== exelius I dunno, when I look at migration data over the long term in the US, a few things stand out to me: 1\. Weather is a huuuuuge factor...
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State Machines - How Balanced controls funds flow - steveklabnik http://blog.balancedpayments.com/state-machines/ ====== plumeria Cool, it would be nice to have a reading list of articles that show this kind of applied FSMs. ~~~ cju You have several realistic examples on this page about Stateflow, one of the most u...
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