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How the Fleece Vest Became the New Corporate Uniform - msh https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-fleece-vest-became-the-new-corporate-uniform-1532442297 ====== neonate [http://archive.is/2uw9H](http://archive.is/2uw9H)
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Ask HN: What podcast(s) are you listening to on a daily basis? - orschiro ====== mcphail Not all are daily releases, but here they are. a16z ESPN Baseball Tonight Exponent Masters of Scale Recode Decode The Bill Simmons Podcast The Joe Rogan Experience The Knowledge Project Ross Bolen Podcast Also Tim Ferris and Found...
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How to deliver on Machine Learning projects - jakek https://blog.insightdatascience.com/how-to-deliver-on-machine-learning-projects-c8d82ce642b0 ====== vjsc So we had this idea of a new feature for our product. The only way to quickly do it was to somehow implement a machine learning algo and that would give us the re...
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The next housing crisis: chronic undersupply of homes for a growing country - jseliger http://www.vox.com/2016/3/24/11299434/next-housing-crisis ====== maerF0x0 > National Association of Realtors Sounds like a group interested in a supply crunch. Afterall, prices rise in low supply, and fear can drive more sales in t...
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Everything Breaks, All the Time. - joshuacc http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/06/everything-breaks-all-time.html ====== jng This guy is wrong, plain and simple. Unforeseeable bit-copying errors caused by cosmic rays and similar circumstances, which do exist, probably account for less than a one out of every billion ...
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Why Facebook comments is a bad idea for your site - pytrin http://www.techfounder.net/2012/08/15/dont-mix-business-and-personal-why-facebook-comments-is-a-bad-idea-for-your-site/ ====== alttag I don't particularly like the trend of sites offloading their commenting mechanisms to Twitter, Facebook, DISQUS, etc. If it's...
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The dangers of deflation - anigbrowl http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21627625-politicians-and-central-bankers-are-not-providing-world-inflation-it-needs-some ====== jandrewrogers For those that do not understand why deflation is considered dangerous, let me describe it this way: It is effectively like cash ear...
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H-1B Workers Not Best Or Brightest, Study Says - Libertatea http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/h1b/h-1b-workers-not-best-or-brightest-study/240149839#.UTXKPHIlC6o.hackernews ====== stewie2 I think his study is biased if you check out his personal website: <http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff.html> He is a lon...
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Ask HN: Focus and concentration - gdberrio Maybe it's just me, but anyone else has troubles dealing with lack of Focus and concentration, ending in not getting things done and getting stuck in a "disfuncional perfectionism" with lots of ideas but zero execution? [It's doesn't help having fear of failure]<p>How did y...
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I Want a Verizon iPhone - DigitalBoB12 http://www.iwantaverizoniphone.com/ ====== gabea From a design perspective I think they would probably get many more sign ups if they had a better call to action for their sign up button. It is hidden as a regular anchor tag and took me more then 5 seconds to even think about ...
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Our first patent troll - hysan https://mycroft.ai/blog/troll-hunter-mycrofts-position-on-patent-trolls/ ====== PaulDavisThe1st I hope they don't end up in court. I've been a fact witness in 3 patent troll cases. The side I was a witness for won one, forced a settle-out-of-court for the second, and lost the last one. T...
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Icons for your web apps - coderdude http://blog.iconspedia.com/icons/free-web-design-icons-282/ ====== aaronbrethorst All well and good, but this line makes me stop cold: "Please check the license specified by each author of an icon pack before using them." I'd love to see a website that could track these licenses ...
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Bernie Sanders’ problem with Amazon - prostoalex https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/bernie-sanders-problem-with-amazon/ ====== pizzazzaro The marketplace may "set the going rate for labour" and all, but oligopoly and cartel-ism artificially depress wages. Much like walmart, Amazon's wages do not respect the costs it t...
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Ask HN: What benefits of quitting alcohol consumption? - throw51319 I&#x27;ve decided to do a &quot;dry&quot; January and if I can do it, will try to extent to all of 2020.<p>I didn&#x27;t drink often, not more than once a week. But it was usually a binge episode, having at least 10 drinks.<p>Has anybody stopped? What...
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Engineering tour de force births programmable optical quantum computer - rbanffy https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/engineering-tour-de-force-births-programmable-optical-quantum-computer/ ====== Strilanc > _The [two qubit] gates are about as reliable as any others you will find in > the quantum computing world, w...
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Benefits of Continuous Delivery - henrik_w https://henrikwarne.com/2017/11/19/benefits-of-continuous-delivery/ ====== coldcode I find continuous delivery to the mobile app stores to be rather silly and wasteful, updating your app every two weeks for example consumes vast bandwidth especially for people with automatic ...
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Could a randomness machine help you fight procrastination? - arnejenssen https://excelerity.com/blog/arne/randomness-jar ====== UweSchmidt I don't like convoluted schemes to make myself "productive". Hold a carrot on a stick in one hand, a whip in the other and feel bad about myself? That's no way to live. I try to f...
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I spent five years trying to learn all these bits I need to build full stack - andrewstuart Here&#x27;s what I know in some depth following a tangible decision five years ago to invest my free time in learning all the technologies I need to build my own applications end to end:<p><i></i> back end programming: Python 3...
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In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life - ahamilton http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/arts/video-games/in-escape-rooms-video-games-meet-real-life.html ====== schoen I did the two permanent room escapes run by Real Escape Game/SCRAP in San Francisco (in the New People mall in Japantown), namely Escape from the My...
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Risks, Rewards, Stress: Early Employees & Founders - eladgil http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/03/early-employees-versus-founders-risks.html ====== autarch I agree that founders take on much more risk and stress than the early employees. I think the source of the discontent that some early employees (like me) express is ...
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Elon Musk on the future of the future - akandiah http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/elon-musk-on-the-future-of-the-future/ ====== cribbageisfun Elon Musk is really awesome. Coming up with 3 products in completely different industries. Especially electric cars and rockets. Amazing.
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How Are Infosec Pros Affected by Pentagon’s 46K Layoffs Plans? - grecs https://www.novainfosec.com/2013/01/26/how-are-infosec-pros-affected-by-pentagons-46k-layoffs-plans/ ====== phaus I would imagine that many Infosec positions would be safe, as there are regulations in place that mandate many aspects of security, in...
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Offer HN: Friendship in the Valley? - juiceandjuice I kind of feel retarded for posting on here, but I'm starting to go out of my mind doing everything by myself, and looking for buddies on CL/okcupid seems weird to me. I'll try to keep this simple.<p>I just moved here to work at SLAC from SLC, Utah a month ago, ...
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Where are my flying... motorcycles? - Zak http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9494328/Aerofex-hover-bike-brings-Star-Wars-transport-closer-to-reality.html ====== Zak I remember seeing <http://hover-bike.com/> last year, but this one seems to be closer to production-ready.
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Feeling sorry for machines is no joke - gilad https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/17/18681682/boston-dynamics-robot-uprising-parody-video-cgi-fake ====== bryanrasmussen I recently submitted Why do Children abuse robots? ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20195120](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20195120)) w...
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Friday Code Monkey Song - TheOrange http://blog.crowdstorm.com/?p=154 ====== danielha Coulton's stuff is great. And although this is one of my favorites, it's important to remember that you don't HAVE to be a code monkey if you're a software engineer. I think a lot of students are getting discouraged from the computer...
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Ready Lisp version 20090130 now available - vrs http://www.newartisans.com/blog/2009/01/ready-lisp-version-20090125-now-available.html ====== DenisM From site: What is Ready Lisp? It’s a binding together of several popular Lisp packages for OS X, including: Aquamacs, SBCL and SLIME. Once downloaded, you’ll have a sin...
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9 Year Old Girl Becomes Microsoft Certified "Professional" - ojbyrne http://gizmodo.com/5116747/9-year-old-girl-becomes-the-youngest-microsoft-certified-professional ====== Eliezer Jeeblus, what's wrong with you people? If she'd gotten a high score on the SAT, would you be telling her how boring and useless the SAT is...
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New Rails-like Framework from 37signals for HTML5 Mobile Apps - abraham http://thinkvitamin.com/mobile/new-rails-like-framework-from-37signals-for-html5-mobile-apps/ ====== sstephenson Hey folks, there's nothing to see here right now. We spent three weeks experimenting with some new tech to see what we could build, ...
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Ask HN: Clever Recruiting Techniques? - jack7890 For me, the biggest surprise about running a startup has been how difficult it is to recruit top-notch engineers. It is shockingly, bewilderingly, impossibly difficult to find qualified web developers. Granted, my notion of "qualified" is discriminating, but it's bee...
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Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye - sagitariusrex https://twitter.com/Marcin_Loboz/status/1132070509246652421 ====== thanatos_dem Looks a lot like the cloud ark from Neil Stevenson’s hard science fiction book ”Seveneves”. The long of the short of it is that moon goes boom, kills life on earth, human...
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Ask HN: Would you be interested in a Python to WebAssembly compiler? - syrusakbary Hi HN!<p>I&#x27;m Syrus, from Wasmer (server-side WebAssembly runtime [1]). We are in the midst of prioritizing our next quarter and I thought it could be interesting to ask here if you would be interested in a Python to Wasm compiler.<...
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PostgreSQL 9.5 will have native sharding - sickpig http://www.depesz.com/2015/04/02/waiting-for-9-5-allow-foreign-tables-to-participate-in-inheritance/ ====== unmole So, it will be web scale? ~~~ sickpig I don't know about "web" scale, but it will definitely scale horizontally without using any external tools/exten...
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Dow plunges 1100 points as coronavirus market tumbling into correction territory - koolba https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/dow-futures-fall-after-microsoft-issues-coronavirus-warning.html ====== rogerkirkness Ah yes, the old "use digital currency as an N95 mask" defense against pandemic virality.
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UCite.it: beyond search - agibsonccc http://ucite.it/ ====== agibsonccc Feedback is appreciated.
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Ask HN: Did you turn golden handcuffs into your next sign-on bonus? - relaunched Have you successfully used a closely impending bonus, retention bonus with vesting, stock vesting, or similar future compensation to effectively negotiate your next opportunity? If so, is that effective when negotiating with a well-funded...
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Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist - lordlarm http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagensit.no%2Farticle2596740.ece ====== gcb0 I'm experiencing something that is obviously dumb users. i have a first.last@gmail address and my name ...
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Evidence of Zika virus found in tears - upen http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/4952.html ====== binalpatel Found this pretty informative answer to one of the questions I had (mainly, whether Zika had always been this bad, or had mutated in some way to make it worse). [http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/4289...
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Ask HN: Solutions to stop the pop under plague? - maximveksler I seems that for now the spammers are winning. What could work to kill this annoyance?<p>Am I mistaken in assuming that browser makers don't know how to fight the new pop under window advertising technique? How about window dependencies graph, where if...
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Why have SVG images not yet replaced PNG on the web? - seky http://blog.sekera.cz/2013/09/why-svg-images-did-not-replace-png.html ====== jahewson Nobody has mentioned the abandonment of SVG 1.2 as a factor. It was dropped by the W3C and never implemented in any browsers. This not only stalled improvements to SVG 1.1 b...
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Jx9: A direct competitor to Lua - xtremejames183 http://jx9.symisc.net/index.html ====== losnggenration While the language & feature-set might be a direct competitor to Lua, the license may make it a non-starter for many. Lua: MIT: can be used in closed source software. Jx9: Symisc Public License (basically the Sl...
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How To Talk to Investors About Your Competitors - Cmccann7 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/12/26/talking-to-a-vc-about-your-competitors/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BothSidesOfTheTable+%28Both+Sides+of+the+Table%29 ====== lionhearted Love this quote, a great reminder: > Remember...
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Ask HN: What are your thoughts about this goal tracker and time management tool? - deniza Satistime (www.satistime.com) is an online tool that combines To Do List + Goal Planner&#x2F;Tracker + Calendar. It streamlines the whole process from goal setting to daily routine - all the while being easy to use. What are you...
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JQuery Cheatsheet - just found it, oh so useful - geuis http://www.gscottolson.com/jquery/jQuery1.2.cheatsheet.v1.0.pdf ====== thomasmallen This one hangs in my cube: [http://colorcharge.com/wp- content/uploads/2007/12/jquery12_c...](http://colorcharge.com/wp- content/uploads/2007/12/jquery12_colorcharge.png) -----...
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Ask HN: Rate my free group texting service with public API - geoffc http://groupflier.com ====== geoffc I just launched the API today so any feedback on it would be greatly appreciated. The direct link to the API is <http://www.groupflier.com/api.html> P.S. Click the phone image to watch the video easter egg -----...
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Pre-trained neural networks? - gregw134 Has anyone compiled a list of pre-trained neural networks available for download? I&#x27;m hoping to contribute some ML to Apache Nifi. Thanks! ====== malux85 You will need to be more specific, a trained neural network is heavily dependent on implementation - for example a train...
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How to Fire Non-Performers - terpua http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/07/how-to-fire-non-performers.php ====== onreact-com What about motivating your team? Caring for the people who work for you? Assigning he right tasks? those that fit? When you're a misanthrope, people won't "perform" for you.
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Scale Fail (part 1) - ableal http://lwn.net/Articles/441790/ ====== wccrawford The bit about metrics really rang true. At 1 company, we had a situation where 2 of the 3 webservers were out of service for various reasons. I knew from past experience that even a single web server should have a load less than 1 with all...
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Today – Quantified self and habit tracker app - baronetto https://neybox.com/today ====== gherkin0 That looks neat. Is there anything similar (and good) for Android?
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Echo Linux : a social news site dedicated to Linux and related topics - fcambus http://www.echolinux.com ====== fcambus For your information, the site is using the 8x16 BIOS format font (also referred as IBM PC Code page 437) in order to mimic the look of textmode terminals.
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North Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent “Unfair Competition” - smokinn http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/13/north_carolina_tesla_ban_bill_would_prevent_unfair_competition_with_car.html ====== tonteldoos Atlas Shrugged, anyone?
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Microsoft Machine Learning Algorithm Cheat Sheet - breck http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/machine-learning-algorithm-cheat-sheet/ ====== ColinWright It would be interesting to compare this in detail with the SciKit-Learn chart that we've seen before here. It's not the same, so the question is ...
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Show HN: Capital market analysis app - kausti Sharing a MVP for visual interactive analytics of capital markets. At the moment it works on most liquid 500 stocks in NSE (National Stock Exchange India) and sector indices published on the exchange.<p>Please visit http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nirvana.market&#x2F; on a computer p...
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How to Make Mistakes in Python (Free EBook) - Garbage http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/how-to-make-mistakes-in-python.csp ====== maweki Even here, in a O'Reilly(!) textbook from 2015(!), we get python2.7 advice. No, since python 3 you (sensibly) can't "True, False = False, True" since True and False are now ke...
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Show HN: Gin – Golang Martini-like web framework - manucorporat http://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/ ====== Artemis2 Real-time code reloading from the author of Martini: Gin - [https://github.com/codegangsta/gin](https://github.com/codegangsta/gin). Quite an unfortunate choice of name. ~~~ manucorporat As author of Gin, ...
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Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren - abhinav http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf ====== Jabbles Launching Gmail on April fools' day was, for me, hilarious. At a time when Yahoo! and Hotmail were offering 5/2 Mb, Google came out with 1Gb. It was so obviously an April Fools' joke... but then...
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Ask HN: Is it a good idea to sell my startup? - gamebak I have been running my startup for a while, no seed funding and still was able get around ~$500 (ish) monthly profits.<p>Yet I was thinking that if I could sell it I would have more money to start something new plus to help me with my college.<p>I would like an...
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Schizophrenic Brains Not Fooled by Optical Illusion - LogicHoleFlaw http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/schizoillusion.html ====== joe_bleau Impressive, especially the linked YouTube video. Reminds me a bit of the old Alan Kay video lecture with the faces and scary inverted mouths. (I can't help but think of ...
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History of the Internet in ship years - zeynel1 Years ago I read about TRIZ in HN. (I couldn't find the article now but it was this article http://www.triz40.com/aff_Principles.htm)<p>The Principle 27 of the 40 principles is "Cheap short-living objects" eg, replace an inexpensive object with a multiple of inexpensiv...
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Down Argentina Way - phreeza http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/down-argentina-way/ ====== pedalpete I just got back from a trip to Buenos Aires. It's an amazing city, but this article says absolutely nothing about the growth or stability in that country. From my understanding (and I didn't dive to deeply int...
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Famed Apple engineer rejected for job at the Genius Bar - Overtonwindow http://www.businessinsider.com/jk-scheinberg-apple-engineer-rejected-job-apple-store-genius-bar-2016-9?yptr=yahoo?r=UK&IR=T ====== wott Wrong title. He _was_ rejected.
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Ask HN: Feedback on Scribnia - Everest I am the co-founder of Scribnia, an online community where users can rate and review bloggers, journalists, and other online authors. Our site also allows users to discover new authors. We have an algorithm which provides tailored author recommendation and use AJAX filtering to...
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Proving our universe is one among many would be a fourth Copernican revolution - pseudolus http://nautil.us/issue/64/the-unseen/the-fourth-copernican-revolution ====== lisper > We can only see a finite volume—a finite number of galaxies. That’s > essentially because there’s a horizon, a shell around us, delineating th...
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Ask HN: What is the end game for cryptocurrency? - S_A_P As crypto starts to enter the mainstream consciousness, Im curious what the killer app or utility crypto currency will provide? Aside from the theoretical, what is the end game of crypto? Is it just an elaborate digital pyramid scheme? Is there some near term ut...
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White House will not sign on to Christchurch call to stamp out online extremism - hirundo https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/15/white-house-will-not-sign-christchurch-pact-stamp-out-online-extremism-amid-free-speech-concerns/ ====== bediger4000 From the article: "U.S. concerns that it clashes with const...
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Bracketed paste mode - falava http://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste ====== gjmulhol Does this work otuside the terminal in interefaces like browser windows? I could imagine a case where it makes sense for security purposes to not allow pasting.
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Announcing React Native 0.60 - stablemap https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2019/07/03/version-60 ====== mrlambchop Expo released their support web (still in beta) at the start of the month, bringing react native + API extensions to iOS/Android + web. [https://blog.expo.io/expo-sdk-v33-0-0-is-now- available...
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UBiome (YC S14) Raises $4.5M to Crowdsource Microbiome Research - katm http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/18/ubiome-raises-4-5m-from-angel-investors-andreessen-horowitz-to-crowdsource-microbiome-research/ ====== untilHellbanned This is similar to 23andMe in that lots of people can obtain this type of genomic data. I know h...
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Anyone else still using RSS? - jetgirl https://jetgirl.art/2019/07/21/rss-is-better-than-reddit-twitter-and-email-subscriptions-for-updates/ ====== AdamGibbins Yes, heavily. If your blog doesn't have an RSS feed, I won't read it. NewsBlur is incredibly powerful and makes filtering 100s/1000s of feeds easy. ~~~ mcgrat...
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Kill Your Dependencies - StreamBright http://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies/ ====== creshal > Can I implement the required minimial functionality myself? Own it. And now _you_ are responsible for tracking down and fixing every single bug and security weakness in it. You and every other developer...
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Did Functional Programming get it wrong? - bhoggard https://medium.com/@reinman/monoids-to-groupoids-492c35105113 ====== sevensor Despite traces of interesting ideas -- spreadsheets are underappreciated, so is Multics -- this article is full of hot air. It implicitly equates Haskell with functional programming. It hyp...
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Can you teach a man to fish who doesn't want to learn? - travisro http://travisrobertson.com/leadership/can-you-teach-a-man-to-fish-who-doesnt-want-to-learn/ ====== jmount Don't click on link- page hijacking overlays. ~~~ travisro My apologies for offending you with my "hijacking overlay." It's been turned off. I'm...
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Ask HN: Suggestions for writing a new compiler? - chm I am a chemistry grad student and will be attending a graduate course in CS at my university in the coming weeks. The course is called &quot;Programming languages and compilers&quot; and its goal is to teach students about compilers by making them write one.<p>As I...
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Payments on the Solid Framework - jmunsch https://docs.solidpay.org/ ====== ryanjshaw Okay I'll bite. I've worked in both retail and corporate banking for over a decade. I've been responsible for software that processes large payments and receipts daily. I've cloned a few cryptocurrencies for fun and have a pretty goo...
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WBC to Picket Aaron Swartz's Funeral, Anonymous to Counter - eeirinberg http://www.opposingviews.com/i/technology/anonymous-plans-defend-aaron-swartzs-funeral-westboro-baptist-church-protests ====== tptacek Although I may be depriving you of the humor value of reading a press release that I swear to God reads for al...
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Xkcd: Orbital Mechanics - ColinWright https://xkcd.com/1356/ ====== stevep98 There is a lot of opportunity to explain engineering concepts through gaming. Especially training users in intuition, and in the applications of math. Calculus and trigonometry have tons of applications in aiming mortars! ~~~ HNLurker2 Too ...
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New book on female advancement from founder of Girls Who Code - acjohnson55 http://www.womenwhodontwaitinline.com/ ====== acjohnson55 I don't expect this will get much attention around here, but I just got a mass mail from Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and recent primary candidate for NYC Public Advocate...
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Are we solving the same problem? - terpua http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/are-we-solving-the-same-problem.html ====== ryansloan I've got a lot of respect for Seth Godin, but sometimes I feel like his blog posts are just regurgitating facts we already know. Yes, it's important to talk to whoever will be...
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15 Incredibly Stupid Ways People Made Their Millions - denzil_correa http://www.mathfinance.cn/15-stupid-ways-people-made-their-millions/ ====== Dylanlacey This seems to be a wee bit of "ideas which I didn't think of and don't appeal to me, which I'm bitter are successful." Or, to put it another way, people busy ma...
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Scientists characterize a new shape using rubber bands - ABS http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/04/scientists-characterize-new-shape-using-rubber-bands ====== bhouston It is also known as the kinked phone cord (back when phones had cords between the base station and the headset): [http://i.imgur.com/AS7UI.jpg](h...
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What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer - dopeboy http://dopeboy.github.io/in-the-zone/ ====== sktrdie I get this too, but it's very draining - similar to doing an intensive workout, or given a talk at a conference. The negatives are obvious; less sociable, more easily irritated, wanting to be by yoursel...
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Liquid breathing - zacharyvoase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing ====== augiehill Reminds me of The Matrix [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8&feature=playe...](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8&feature=player_embedded) ~~~ StavrosK That's a tube with air so the human can breathe _even...
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WebCL – Heterogeneous parallel computing in HTML5 web browsers - matt42 https://www.khronos.org/webcl/ ====== kevingadd Relevant Bugzilla bug for Gecko: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664147#c30](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664147#c30) An interesting spec, certainly, but no traction so...
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Ask HN: Charge in Euro or Dollars for an online service? - jontro We are running an online service (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;decor-fb.com&#x2F;) and are currently charging our customers in Euro.<p>Users subscribe with a monthly plan and we are using facebook payments.<p>Our customers are from all over the world, our top cou...
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Ask YC: What options are available for sharing ad revenue with users? - ulfstein Is anyone here aware of a way to share a site's ad revenue with a site's users? ====== yourabi I think for a smaller shop / startup the easiest way to go would be to have users enter their own google adsense client number and use that a...
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The chemfp project: problems selling free software - dalke https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-019-0398-8#Sec24 ====== dalke I started the chemfp project in part to see if I could develop a self-funded free/open source product in my field, cheminformatics. (In short, storing and searching chemic...
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Ask HN: are you working on a commercial project with no sales ever? - andrewstuart Curious to know how many people are working on projects that intended to make money but have never made a single dollar. ====== LarryMade2 [http://www.doplaces.com](http://www.doplaces.com) In a slow development phase and building a ...
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Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School - wesd http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/randall-munroe-xkcd-science-textbook.html ====== jonahrd I'm not a huge fan of the way he explains things with common vocabulary. Sure it makes sense to me because I understand that he means "organs" by bags and it'...
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My First Year as a Freelance AI Engineer - polm23 http://masatohagiwara.net/202002-my-first-year-as-a-freelance-ai-engineer.html ====== mhagiwara Wow, it's nice to see my post on the top page of Hacker News. Note that I wrote this post back in February 2020 and there are a couple of things that I would like to add: ...
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Ask HN: Please give us your valid feedback to improve Skillendar. - sunsai Skillendar is back! Now with more focus on you and your neighbourhood. Please have a look and give us your valid feedback on design, usability, features etc.<p>A bit about Skillendar: Skillendar is a neighbourhood network for you to connect ...
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Apple closes as most valuable company - ashishgandhi http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/08/10/as-stock-market-burns-apple-most-valuable-company-in-it/ ====== pyre > iPods start at just $49. That’s less than a tank of gas. No > wonder Apple is more valuable than Exxon Mobil right > now...
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I made a Halo 5 Web UI - decidertm http://successbreak.net/halo/ ====== decidertm I'm trying to develop my skills in UI and web development, would be nice to hear your thoughts. ------ benbristow Looks great. I doubt Halo 5 will ever come out for PC though! ~~~ decidertm One can only hope!
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Output of Dutch solar bike lane exceeds expectations - Rafert https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F102994%2Fopbrengst-fietspad-met-geintegreerde-zonnepanelen-is-boven-verwachting.html&edit-text= ====== meric Roads are quite a good place t...
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Name Recessions After People - mariorz http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Name_20Recessions_20After_20People#1223696557 ====== JacobAldridge Where names have doubled up, I've used the most interesting surname or middle name. This has prevented three Recession Williams (a tip when choosing the next cabinet). This titlin...
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Bacterial molecule trains the immune system to tolerate infection - dnetesn http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-10-bacterial-molecule-immune-tolerate-infection.html ====== DrScump blogspam of: [http://www.massgeneral.org/about/pressrelease.aspx?id=2001](http://www.massgeneral.org/about/pressrelease.aspx?id=2001)
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SUSE: More Than Linux - CrankyBear https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-more-than-linux/ ====== sarcasmatwork duplicate [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19548418](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19548418)
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Mithril.js 2.0 Released - mesaframe https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/releases/tag/v2.0.1 ====== keb_ Huge congrats to the Mithril team. Been using Mithril for over two years now. I credit Mithril and its amazing community for making me the front-end developer I am today. When the massive amount of tooling and p...
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Wave Gigs - mrtron http://www.wavegigs.com ====== mrtron Just launched. Site: <http://www.wavegigs.com> Blog: <http://blog.wavegigs.com>
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Ask HN: Is Bitcoin split possible - tnt128 Similar to stock split. Seems both the sellers and buyers have the incentive for such event to occur. Can someone comment on how technically possible&#x2F;impossible for that event to occur? And how would it impact the x-coin eco-system? ====== sp332 Bitcoins are divisible do...
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Netflix and Ch-Ch-Chilly - geodel https://backchannel.com/the-internet-really-has-changed-everything-here-s-the-proof-928eaead18a8#.vrhmwhsi2 ====== enthdegree Really interesting content, it is fascinating and somehow heartwarming to see a picture of an environment like this one. Unfortunately this is in stark contras...
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