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Ask HN: Google took down Chrome Extension without reason. What should I do now? - roadbeats Hi all,<p>I run a bookmarking website (getkozmos.com) and it has a browser extension which is available on Github (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kozmos&#x2F;browser-extensions).<p>Google took down this extension without eve...
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Look At Me! - gamble http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/look_at_me.php?page=all ====== rhdoenges "preeminent patron saint of pre-adolescent sartorial taste" Now THAT is good writing.
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The Worlds Very First Webserver - thenextweb http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/16/the-worlds-very-first-webserver/ They (Herb Brody) say that telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. But I still think it is good to loo...
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A look at an original iPhone prototype - Assossa https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/19/18263844/apple-iphone-prototype-m68-original-development-board-red ====== yellowapple Seeing what looks like a full iPhone attached to it (I know it's just the screen, but the inclusion of a taped-over home button is interesting) gives...
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Bountify - Crowdsource small coding tasks - danabramov https://bountify.co ====== mseebach Hmm, it seems to me that for any task small enough to be appropriate for this site, it will be more work to describe the task and verify the result than to just perform the task. This leads us to those who don't have the capabi...
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Moneta - a unified interface to key/value stores - mickeyben http://github.com/wycats/moneta ====== thibaut_barrere API-cache is a convenient caching layer that works on top of Moneta: <http://github.com/mloughran/api_cache> I use it on multiple sites (to cache http downloads, delicious tags api calls etc). You ca...
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Accidentally Turing Complete (2013) - morgante http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html? ====== ericfontaine nice. they forgot to mention Excel. [http://www.felienne.com/archives/2974](http://www.felienne.com/archives/2974)
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Robert Scoble launching an Investment Fund - DivByZero http://scoblefund.com/ ====== avirambm "This website is intended to be a Parody" ~~~ DivByZero Of course :)
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The vandals destroying libraries should have the book thrown at them - Tomte https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/13/vandals-destroying-libraries-should-have-book-thrown-at-them ====== djaychela I live in the UK, have done my entire life, and have also been an intermitted user of libraries throughout my ...
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Why RIM are giving away thousands of PlayBooks - jamesharnedy http://www.appesque.com/why-rim-are-giving-away-thousands-of-playbooks/ ====== andrewl-hn Hmm.. Turns out they use Adobe Air for their tablet. Quite surprising.
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Microsoft Announces Simplygon Cloud; Optimizes Mixed Reality Development - Impossible https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/12/07/microsoft-announces-simplygon-cloud-optimizes-mixed-reality-development/ ====== TazeTSchnitzel > all major mixed reality platforms, including Windows Mixed Reality, iOS and > Android ...
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Future Cities Catapult Launches Open Source Data Tool: The Digital Connector - Tombolo https://github.com/FutureCitiesCatapult/TomboloDigitalConnector ====== Tombolo Based on our README can you determine what this tool does in <1 min
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How do you move around in vim? - donutmonger arrow keys or hjkl?<p>I&#x27;ll admit it, I use arrow keys so I don&#x27;t have to leave insert mode. ====== ddgflorida I got used to using jkhl when I starting using vi back in the 80s, so I still use it. Don't forgot about w to jump between words, and several other single...
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The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India - denzil_correa http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/5/470.long ====== zaptheimpaler Coming from India, I have really come to hate the medical system here in the US. There are countless times I have been screwed over by the lack of transparency in cost...
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“Some Puzzles for Libertarians”, Treated as Writing Prompts for Short Stories - rayalez http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/21/current-affairs-some-puzzles-for-libertarians-treated-as-writing-prompts-for-short-stories/ ====== saundby I can't help but wish we'd seen where the rapping Alexander Hamilton's thoughts were go...
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RiveScript – A Simple Scripting Language for Chatbots - nikolay https://www.rivescript.com/ ====== nikolay Here you can find some samples: [https://www.rivescript.com/about](https://www.rivescript.com/about) ~~~ S4M This is a nice example to use RiveScript in python, as I found the docs on pypy a bit lacking: [https:...
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Fact-checking Byzantine astrologers - benbreen http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/magic-shows/accounting-standards ====== engi_nerd Lapham's Quarterly is a treasure trove of things like this. It's well worth the $39/year. And no, I'm not affiliated with it in any way. It's a magazine that appeals to the same part of me t...
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Every '… is down' posts. - zachinglis I wanted to complain on the GitHub thread but I wanted to hear the rest of the community's opinions before I spoke.<p>What's everyone's views on the "Github is down", "Heroku is down." To me, they clutter what's meant to be about news, and exciting new developments. Often I thin...
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Winter Olympics: Elizabeth Swaney the 'best' and Worst' Olympian - The_Fox http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43123398 ====== orangecat "What do you call the person who graduates from medical school at the bottom of their class?" "Doctor" She had a goal, recognized she wasn't going to achieve it with the conventiona...
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The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978) [pdf] - dirtyaura https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf ====== AceJohnny2 I believe cstross's book Neptune's Brood is based on ideas from this paper. [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/09/crib- she...](http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/20...
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Tell HN: I created a google group for offline web applications - Tichy http://groups.google.com/group/offline-web-applications ====== Tichy Couldn't find that many resources, so I thought a place to discuss the issues surrounding HTML5 offline web apps might be a good idea. I wanted to use Zed's new groups thing as...
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Show HN: Parking Lot design Problem - ranjeethacker Please provide feedback [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ranjeet-floyd&#x2F;ParkingLotProblem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ranjeet-floyd&#x2F;ParkingLotProblem</a>] Problem statement : [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ranjee...
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NASA Spots Structure at the Edge of the Solar System - virtualthings https://differentimpulse.com/nasa-spots-structure-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/ ====== lingzb Hopefully the new satellite spots Planet X soon as well
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Embracing the Laws of Physics: Three Reversible Models of Computation - adamnemecek https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03678 ====== evincarofautumn The language they introduce, Π, is essentially a simple concatenative programming language where all of the primitive combinators happen to be reversible; the graphical depiction ...
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Show HN: Oolite space game in HTML5/WebGL - grondilu http://grondilu.github.io/oolite/test-coriolis.html ====== bemmu Bring on the flashbacks of all those hopeless docking attempts in Elite. ------ chazu Very cool - I look forward to digging through the code sometime, thanks for sharing.
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Compiler Basics: LLVM - eatonphil http://notes.eatonphil.com/compiler-basics-llvm.html ====== thisacctforreal Is there any sense in compiling human-readable LLVM IR, like many compile-to-C languages aim to do? I imagine doing so wouldn't have much value, as nobody programs in the IR. ~~~ civility He's implementing h...
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The Diabetes Cure That Most Insurance Companies Won't Pay For - victorbojica https://gizmodo.com/the-diabetes-cure-that-most-insurance-companies-wont-pa-1826946364 ====== stephengillie > _In May 2016, however, Benari received a procedure known as a gastric > bypass, a laparoscopic surgery that gave him something few o...
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How H-1B Visas Are Screwing Tech Workers - uladzislau http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/silicon-valley-h1b-visas-hurt-tech-workers ====== makmanalp Friends, I'll approach this from a different perspective, if you'll please take a moment to lend me your ears, and hear my plight. ============= > But in reali...
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Fossil – Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management - typedweb http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki ====== jccooper I use fossil; like it a lot. If you use/would like to use fossil, you might also want to take a look at [http://chiselapp.com](http://chiselapp.com) It's...
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Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go - tartpac https://github.com/asciimoo/wuzz ====== gschier That's awesome! The animated GIF on the README does a great job showcasing it. I've been working on a more complex GUI API testing tool ([https://insomnia.rest](https://insomnia.rest)) but, to be honest, not...
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Forthcoming OpenSSL release announced - Rygu https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2016-January/000058.html ====== djcapelis Reading the tea leaves on this one early we can probably assume there's a good chance the high vulnerability does not affect libressl, which forked before the 1.0.2 codebase. We'll ...
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Ask HN: Do you knowingly avoid affiliate links? - ljoshua I recently noticed a behavior that I am actively trying to change: I used to avoid clicking on affiliate links, even if I wanted to get to the provider in the end (I&#x27;d strip it out or type it in myself). I don&#x27;t know why I did this, but I&#x27;ve ta...
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A subfield-logarithm attack against ideal lattices - pedro84 http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140213-ideal.html ====== pbsd This sort of thing is a recurring theme in cryptography: 1\. Someone proposes a scheme based on Hard Problem X. X looks strong, but the resulting scheme either is too slow or has gigantic keys. 2\. Som...
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Ask HN: Kanban for Multidisciplinary Projects? - robomartin I’ve always worked with some kind of a Kanban-Scrum-Agile-ish system for as long as I can remember. Most of these evolved out of necessity and without official affiliation to any of the above.<p>I’d be curious to know what HN’ers have found useful for deep&#...
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The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia - noyesno https://twitter.com/liamosaur/status/1296305262144364544 ====== chrismorgan Is it morbid of me to wonder what happens if you fly a plane into such a building in Flight Simulator? It just… sticks out so much that crashing into it seems the obvious thing to try....
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Story on Google Bias Reveals Left/Right Divide - pinche2 https://www.allsides.com/blog/project-veritas-story-google-bias-reveals-leftright-divide ====== bediger4000 The very name "allsides.com" indicates where the problem is: classic "both sides!" arguments, where in fact, one side is absolutely nuts, but gets present...
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The Internet is a surveillance state - lignuist http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html?eref=edition ====== richardjordan The elephant in the room that CNN doesn't want to talk about or admit to is that much of the problem lies in Big Media (of which CNN is obviously a part)...
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Lefsetz Letter - Apple/EMI/DRM - "Why the fuck should they cost more?" - jamiequint http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/04/02/appleemidrm/ ====== shsung What an angry letter. They upped the quality of the music and charged a little more for it, there's nothing wrong with that. They charge what they th...
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Ask HN: Where to Find Computer Science Research Papers? - crowhack My brief search into this only led to the ACM digital library, which seems pretty good. Are there any other services, free or paid, that provide access to old and new computer science research? ====== yesenadam Library Genesis has scientific article se...
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What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs? - manishreddyt ====== ekpyrotic Self-directed learners study subjects that complement their current interests and obsessions. Presently I am interested in the European sovereign-debt crisis, so it is natural to go ahead and study the history of the Eurozone. ...
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Clear Channel becomes iHeartMedia, Inc - coreymgilmore http://www.clearchannel.com/Pages/Home.aspx ====== pendevere It is hard to recall a more beautiful corporate name morphing into something so hideous.
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Ask HN: I want to build a cable company. How would I get started? - jayzalowitz I want to build a cable company that centers around viewer types. Basically, it is my understanding that the majority of my cable costs centers around channels (like fox) that I just dont watch, if I wanted to build a system that let custo...
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Frog Driven Development by spif - davestone http://24waystostart.com/2010/frog-driven-development/ ====== j_baker "We switched the project from an hourly rate to a fixed fee after seeing that the costs would be more than we budgeted. This would move some of the risk to Kev and be the right incentive to have him deli...
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Hash functions and block ciphers - cgs1019 http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/ ====== tptacek I like a lot of what Bob Jenkins writes, and I think(?) I may still be using his hash table library as my hash_t in my C code, but I still wouldn't use anything he designed in place of SHA256 or AES; so, just that word of cau...
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Darpa challenge offers public $100,000 for small unmanned aircraft - coondoggie http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/darpa-challenge-offers-public-100000-small-un ====== chrisbennet It would be fun to develop but they are offering less than a years pay. Why would I (or any engineer) spend a year of development...
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Uninstall QuickTime for Windows: Apple will not patch its security bugs - LukeB_UK http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/14/uninstall_quicktime_for_windows/ ====== jarnix They should trigger an alert if it's possible within the software. I have something called "Apple Software Update" on my PC, it could be used to disp...
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Travis CI Security Advisory: Secured Environment Variables - edmorley https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-05-08-security-advisory ====== mintplant > As this fix runs in Ruby, it results in larger memory overhead. To address > this, we are working on an executable binary that will be installed as part > of the build-image....
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Google+ Ripples brings something interesting to the table - Nemmie http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GoogleRipplesBringsSomethingInterestingToTheTable.aspx ====== localhost3000 I don't buy that normal people care about analytics and stats and 'animating how their post moves around the internet' - might be cool for us ge...
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Show HN: Modern Editor – text editor optimized for Windows 10 - quanglam2807 https://github.com/modern-editor/modern-editor ====== quanglam2807 I started this project about 2 weeks ago. It's built on ReactJS + WinJS + WinRT APIs: no Electron, light-weight, optimized for Windows 10 and works on PCs, tablets and mobiles...
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Show HN: How early can you retire if you move to another place? - pieterhg http://nomadlist.com/fire? ====== godot Does the "Use cost of living for a family" checkbox include kids? If so, how many? ------ keiferski Nice idea but the data is extremely inaccurate. It costs vastly more than $775 per month to live in Alb...
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Winamp 6, due out in 2019, aims to whip more llama ass - Tomte https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/winamp-set-to-release-entirely-new-version-next-year/ ====== devwastaken I used to enjoy Spotify until their mobile app stopped letting me play specific songs from my playlists unless I got premium. I ...
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Principle of Least Astonishment - kentbrew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment ====== dang Earlier discussion (earlier Wiki too): [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794771](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794771) Repeats are fine after a year or so but we need more astonishment b...
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Computer science as a lost art (2015) - jxub http://rubyhacker.com/blog2/20150917.html ====== wrs Well stated. I recently went through (the recordings of) MIT’s intro course for electrical engineers, in which somewhere the professor says students may wonder why they have to do all this calculus and learn FET models a...
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Nice app, horrible source code: Telegram for Android - handpickednames https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/src/main/java/org/telegram/ui/ChatActivity.java ====== latte Did a quick search to find out the background - it turns out that the author had almost no prior Android development experience...
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Vote Today on Senate H-1B Bill - griff1986 https://twitter.com/CIS_org/status/1174448083444350977 ====== umvi > It eliminates the per-country cap, which meters issuance of green cards so > that they are distributed to applicants from all countries I'm not an especially pro-diversity person, but won't this just mean I...
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Show HN: Reader for Chrome. Bookmarking made simple - rukshn https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reader-extension-for-chro/emeacaomhbajejnndadbkbmfhpljjeik ====== rukshn Hi, I'm the creator of Reader extension, please give feedback and ask anything for clarifications :)
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Interesting Bridge, New Construction - savic http://funpresident.com/2009/01/interesting-bridge-new-construction/ Leeuwarden Bridge in Dutch ====== MaysonL See <http://jalopnik.com/photogallery/flyingbridge/> for more & more informative, pictures.
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The original pitch for Diablo (1994) [pdf] - dsl http://www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.pdf ====== c0l0 Good to see plenty of people in the comments experiencing nostalgia due to fond memories of playing this great, great game :) You may be unaware that there is "Belzebub", a "HD mod" for the original Di...
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Firefox Hello - ajankovic https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/hello/ ====== windlep Since no one realizes that Mozilla actually develops stuff in the open (vs. code/project-dumps like Google _after_ its 'done'), here's the Mozilla project page for Hello (previously called Loop): [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop](https...
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Why do we all still use Qwerty keyboards? - CapitalistCartr http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161212-why-is-qwerty-on-our-keyboards ====== nacc I have switched to programmer's dvorak (dvp) for a year now. I have recorded the amount of typing vs speed. Right after the switch, the speed increase is logarithmic to amoun...
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My Summer of Snowden - ForHackernews https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/ ====== ACS_Solver Fascinating article, well worth reading for those who have been following the Snowden story and (US) government surveillance in general. It's interesting to read abo...
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Graph visualization with gradient descent, anything suggestions to improve? - mr23 http://g23.co/visualize.html ====== equark You could increase the speed and stability by adding a drag force and using the Barnes-Hut approximation. See: <http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/force.html> [http://vis.stanford.edu/prot...
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How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github - maxogden https://github.com/maxogden/gh-pages-template ====== kecebongsoft I had a problem with Github user pages for the past few months: It stopped building. At first I was more than happy that for every commits, I can see the changes im...
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Am I the only one that prefers the stripped down Gizmodo 'emergency' site? - annon http://updates.gizmodo.com ====== annon Their normal site has become so difficult to navigate, logo overhanging on videos, slow javascript/rendering, etc. I've visited the basic tumblr site much more than I would normally visit their...
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Anandtech: AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review (28nm, new architecture) - zdw http://www.anandtech.com/print/5261/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review ====== gcp I wish someone would make an explanation of the current NVIDIA and AMD architectures with the terms used translated to their CPU equivalents, instead of the current half-market...
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A Startup Reading List - sweetdee http://simplifilm.com/startup-reading-list/ ====== rxl This list, compiled by Chris Johnson, includes a book called "Trust Me, I'm Lying", by Ryan Holiday. One thing to note is that Chris worked with Ryan and has a close relationship with him (Chris actually wrote the trailer for Rya...
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Eulogy for Groklaw - cooldeal http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Eulogy-for-Groklaw ====== FlorianMueller The article talks a lot about Groklaw's decline and accurately concludes does Groklaw must end now because otherwise it will slide into complete irrelevance. I concur....
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Amazon Dash Button's Wireless Audio Configuration - mavci http://www.blog.jay-greco.com/wp/?p=116 ====== grogenaut It doesn't work with android because of the wide variety of speakers and microphones on android vs the very few for ios. Many android phones can't even emit or record ultrasound. ~~~ NateyJay I wonder wh...
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Ask HN: What are some technical blogs you are reading regularly? - vchernobyl And I really mean regularly. I have a few favorite blogs where I would read a post here and there, but nothing that really sticks (except Paul Graham&#x27;s essays). Any recommendations? ====== zikzak There's [https://www.schneier.com/blog/]...
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Automatically calibrating a computer projector image - ranit8 http://dalpix.com/blog/automatically-calibrating-computer-projector-image ====== robert-boehnke Reminds me of the work by Johnny Lee on projector calibration. His appears to be a bit faster. <http://johnnylee.net/projects/thesis/> ~~~ mmastrac According...
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Another appeal from Jimmy Wales - enko http://www.danwei.org/front_page_of_the_day/is_there_no_escape.php ====== mrr2 Considering the sheer breadth of knowledge Wikipedia makes available to the public for free, I think we can all afford the millisecond it takes us to scroll away from the banner ad. Better yet, I thi...
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Swinging the Vote? - tombrossman https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/wheres-my-email ====== bjourne People who want to trash this study with the same old "Have they thought of $obvious_counterargument?" should first browse through their GitHub repo: [https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-wheres-my-...
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If CO2 was a visible gas - yeukhon https://plus.google.com/110204425205409703492/posts/MbBUsDDY2YP?pid=6037803625382141586&oid=107469388689097646266 ====== cordite That's some beautiful animation. At first I wondered, "Wouldn't the air be all purple normally?" Turns out my memory of the atmosphere levels were wrong...
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Fuzzing D code with LDC - arunc https://johanengelen.github.io/ldc/2018/01/14/Fuzzing-with-LDC.html ====== jordigh This is bizarre. The comment by katastic, quoted below, is dead. I see no reason why it should be. I don't know how else to report this, so if the mods catch this, feel free to delete my comment and resto...
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Getter Setter: To use or not to use - Garbage http://muhammadkhojaye.blogspot.com/2010/10/getter-setter-to-use-or-not-to-use.html ====== dlsspy This is mostly a java disease, though it affects a few other languages. In python, you wouldn't design this because you can change the implementation of the class without ha...
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More Than 30 Killed, Others Taken Hostage In Brazen Terrorist Attack in Nairobi - r0h1n http://www.businessinsider.com/nairobi-mall-attack-terrorism-2013-9 ====== FreeInfo4All Silly Kenyans. Don't they know terrorism is just an excuse for the US government to infringe civil liberties?
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Ask HN: Those who got YC S16 interviews, what's your startup? - myroon5 ====== minimaxir No YC S16 company will announce that they are in the batch, as it has press value (IMO, nowadays I disagree with that, but that's a topic for another day) ~~~ vit05 It is a rule for the interview or just for when they get selected...
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Traditional Real Estate Professionals Fight Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com - thowar2 http://activerain.com/blogsview/3476614/narep-forms-to-fight-abuse-of-the-big-3-in-listing-syndication ====== thowar2 Taken from their About page: "ActiveRain is not trying to change the real estate business model, unlike other tech...
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Systemd Continues Getting Bigger, Almost At 550k Lines Of Code - rdtsc http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY5NjM ====== akerl_ Making a post that is headlined with a concern about codebase-size and then leading with a graph of commit counts, a totally different metric, is quite deceptive, especially...
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Show HN: Sunsetter - find out when the sun will set over there - w00kie http://sunsetter.herokuapp.com/ ====== duiker101 Nice, I am for sure not the target audience of this website but I was wandering, who would find it useful? Not a critique or else, just curiosity. ~~~ w00kie I see Mount Fuji from my living room ...
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Lush cosmetics in YouTube address dispute - 51Cards http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33223511 ====== AshFurrow So Google blames its algorithm for giving the URL to a company that didn't even ask for it, then Google says its the company's responsibility to return the address. On Google's service. That Google owns. T...
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"Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process." - zzzeek http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/101988/should-developers-accept-overtime-weekend-work-denied-bonus-payments/101989#101989 ====== edw519 What do long hours often represent? Enterprise: Incompetent management, lazy co-worke...
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Ask HN: can I teach myself the skills needed to succeed in NLP/IR/PA/DM? - brosephius where NLP = natural language processing, IR = information retrieval, PA = predictive analytics, and DM = data mining (had to fit the title in 80 chars :P)<p>for example: http://www.recordedfuture.com<p>their jobs page makes it soun...
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Ask HN: What are the benefits of putting a beta sign close to the logo? - lgmspb We are planning to release our first public version soon, but are worried that a beta sign close to the logo may cost us some users. ====== BtM909 As always, I would suggest A/B testing! I would guess that a beta logo could potentiall...
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Show HN: MVP Clear your head - eassssy http://talkproductivity.xyz/cyh/clear-your-head.html ====== jaoued Nice and easy to use. Really useful. One comment is that when I click on "talk productivity" and "popular books", it would be nicer to get an external link so I can keep "my todo list" at sight. Good work.
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Yes, fire is used to keep Chicago trains running in the cold - duck https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/weather/ct-met-chicago-train-tracks-fire-20190130-story.html ====== ilamont Boston and NYC have special equipment to keep the trains running, including "Snowzilla," a railcar mounted with a Korean-war era jet engine...
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Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi - KirinDave https://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-on-raspberry-pi/ ====== linguae Something that just dawned on me is how far we have come regarding the compute resources that are available to the average person living in the developed world. Consider the hardware that Lar...
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Stop posting crap, start realizing you're reacting - kfalter http://kelseyfalter.posterous.com/stop-posting-start-reacting-to-reactions ====== kfalter I should've mentioned we are coding it in javascript and node :) (in js and php right now)
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WeWork Is Exposing an Astronomical Amounts of Data on Poorly Protected WiFi - stanzheng https://gizmodo.com/wework-is-exposing-an-astronomical-amount-of-data-on-po-1838254217 ====== heyoni Is this for real? Are they really using open networks at WeWork? The only ones I've been to had my own company's private wifi runn...
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Tinder Launches a Spring Break Mode - ishikawa https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/tinder-launches-a-spring-break-mode/ ====== IloveHN84 Isn't than Tinder favouring sex workers?
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Show HN: Practicing Rails: Learn Rails without being overwhelmed - justinweiss https://www.justinweiss.com/book/ ====== justinweiss I just opened up beta book sales today! If you'd like to learn more about the reason behind the book, you can read more here: [http://www.justinweiss.com/blog/2014/10/21/learn-rails- wi...
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One File Linux – live linux distro combined in one EFI file - lisnake https://github.com/zhovner/OneFileLinux/ ====== alexforster Link to (translated) blog post about how this was done: [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&...
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Ask HN: It's better to have social media account for every product you have? - alinalex As a company, if you have more than one product is it better to have let&#x27;s say a twitter account for each of them or keep just one social media account for everything?<p>Thanks! ====== throwaway420 gt565k gave a great, succinc...
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Show HN: Live video stream of our Internet connected Christmas Tree - cdrx http://port57tree.com ====== cdrx You can tweet a new colour for the tree to @port57tree. The tree is driven by two Raspberry Pis, four FadeCandy boards, 2048 RGB LEDs and four 60 amp power supplies. It took about 100 hours to plan and build w...
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San Francisco: Protected tenants and what you need to know (2007) - fersho311 http://thefrontsteps.com/2007/12/07/truth-be-told-protected-tenants-and-what-you-need-to-know/ ====== ChuckMcM Some context <http://www.sftu.org/ellis.html>
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MySQL 1 – 1 = 18446744073709551615 - jakejake http://verysimple.com/2007/12/07/subtracting-unsigned-integers-with-mysql/ ====== gregjor Good reminder. Not specific to MySQL, though. This happens in many languages that have unsigned integers. The underlying bit pattern resulting from twos- complement arithmetic is the ...
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How to Incent Good User Behavior: Use Real Identity (ala LinkedIn, FB) - dell9000 http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2010/02/21/key-to-trust-is-real-identity/ ====== xiaoma Public identification discourages dishonesty and rude behavior, but it also discourages unpopular views, political dissent, whistle-blowing and other val...
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Learn To Code CSS For Free [Freebie] - jeffreyfox http://www.cultofmac.com/215164/learn-to-code-css-for-free-freebie/ ====== rman666 Sold Out? WTF?
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Why Does the Neocortex Have Columns? A Theory of Learning Structure of the World [pdf] - blacksmythe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/09/28/162263.full.pdf ====== Cacti Jeff Hawkins gets shit on a lot in ML because his theories haven’t produced models with results as good as the mainstream approach, ...
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How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery - ilike http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/06/10/how-game-theory-solved-a-religious-mystery/ ====== leelin A neat twist to the standard pro-rata division we see a lot in bankruptcies. What I like best is this method penalizes the creditor for extending too much credit....
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