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Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android - jbarham http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-sues-google-for-patent-infringement-2010-08-12?reflink=MW_news_stmp ====== cscotta The biggest issue I see with Oracle's lawsuit is not with Android itself, but the future of Java as an open platform. The claims are prett...
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GitHub Removes BSD2/3 Clause Licenses - deadgrey19 When creating a new repository on github.com (https://github.com/new), it is no longer possible to automatically generate BSD2/3 clause licenses. ====== darkengine They also don't have an option for GPLv2, because it would introduce "cognitive over...
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Ask HN: How do you organize and share information within your company? - EpiphanyMachine We are looking for a place to put all the knowledge we share into one place. The idea would be that when someone asks you a questions you answer in this place and send them a link to your answer. With a culture of always checkin...
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Automated Python 2 to 3 code translation - julox http://pythonconverter.com/ ====== mherrmann I don't mean to be negative, but how is this better than just using the `2to3` tool that already ships with Python? ~~~ mathnode But this web-2to3 is monetised with ads. The python community didn't think of that. ~~~ raverb...
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Show HN: BidOnMyDay, bid to have me fly to you and do anything - driverdan Looking for feedback on my newest project, BidOnMyDay: http://bidonmyday.com<p>I came up with this idea a few weeks ago when JetBlue reopened sales of their BluePass. You bid to have my fly to you, using my BluePass, and do whatever work you ...
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Let's be real about dependencies - steveklabnik https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies ====== marcus_holmes Really interesting article, but it does treat Go and Rust dependency cultures as equivalent. Whereas there is a _strong_ preference in Go culture to use as few dependencies as possible, and preferabl...
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"Potentially rogue binary" in Sprint Evo - jchonphoenix http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked1_disclosure ====== mmastrac I'm part of the team that found this backdoor. A few points: 1\. "Never Trust Sprint Again" is editorializing on the part of the submitter, not our stance. It's a very, ver...
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Step inside your photos with Cardboard Camera - modeless https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/step-inside-your-photos-with-cardboard.html ====== mortenjorck According to a friend's analysis, this appears to be using a rather ingenious dual slit-scan technique where it's gathering the leftmost and rightmost columns ...
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Why Micro-Location iBeacons May Be Apple's Biggest New Feature For iOS 7 - jimiasty http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/08/29/why-micro-location-ibeacons-may-be-apples-biggest-new-feature-for-ios-7/ ====== jimiasty This is Jakub, co-founder of Estimote (YC S13). I will add to this article that few weeks ...
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Of emoji, Hanzi and alchemy (2015) - mountainplus https://jealousmarkup.xyz/texts/of-emoji-hanzi-and-alchemy/ ====== telotortium I wonder how the visual density of Hanzi vs. Pinyin (or English) compares. On the one hand, each hanzi is approximately equivalent to about 4 letters of Pinyin, and Hanzi text uses no spacin...
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Why Rust for Low-Level Linux Programming? - pieceofpeace http://groveronline.com/2016/06/why-rust-for-low-level-linux-programming/ ====== ktamura As a long-time developer marketing person, I must say Rust is kicking ass, not just as a language but as a community. They are deeply strategic. 1\. Clear audience target: ...
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Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation’s public schools - antigizmo https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/study-says-standardized-testing-is-overwhelming-nations-public-schools/2015/10/24/8a22092c-79ae-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html ====== douche No shit. Public school is all about teaching...
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Understanding Event Driven Architecture - kiyanwang https://hackernoon.com/understanding-event-driven-architecture-ub1k3umo ====== chadcmulligan Images don't appear in safari on the Mac - the webp ones are displayed as broken images, works fine on chrome (naturally enough)
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Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Successful Drug Policies - agbell http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080 ====== stretchwithme its completely impractical to try to control what people do with their own bodies. impractical and immoral. cato is great on drugs (so to speak). I first used their...
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Amazon Should Acquire Netflix - Here's Why - dell9000 http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2009/01/02/why-amazon-should-acquire-netflix/ ====== catone The argument I've always heard against Amazon acquiring Netflix is that Netflix has distribution centers in something like 45 states, whereas Amazon only has them in a handful. So...
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TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds - jyujin http://httpshaming.tumblr.com/post/94950343491/tripit-insecurely-broadcasts-sensitive-travel-details ====== donkeyd The case of using the info at a hotel to get your room key is pretty reasonable. On the home break-in story however ther...
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BitMessage - Bitcoin Inspired Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging - ericb https://bitmessage.org/wiki/FAQ ====== Sami_Lehtinen I have found several issues with current implementation. Address spoofing and Inventory injection attacks, crashing listener thread with stateless connection flood etc. There are several ways t...
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How to create your own SMTP server in 20 minutes - sameercharles https://sameercharles.com/how-to-create-your-own-smtp-sever/ ====== panpanna Thought I would see some really cool and simple smtp implementation. All I found was npm install $stuff $stuff run ~~~ sameercharles Yeah, but thats a po...
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Project Logos - natmaster http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com/apex/ideaView?id=087800000005GwJAAU I want to fix news. Please give me feedback. (Note: a lot of details have been omitted in the public entry to protect the execution of my idea - if you need more information, feel free to ask and I might revea...
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"The only man who has ever visited Dune" has passed away - davi http://www.bpib.com/illustra3/Schoenherr/Draft.html ====== davi A little more: [http://ianschoenherr.blogspot.com/2010/04/john- schoenherr-19...](http://ianschoenherr.blogspot.com/2010/04/john- schoenherr-1935-2010.html), [http://blogs.discovermagazine....
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Show HN: Israel has been rocket-free for ... - BrandonMarc http://israelhasbeenrocketfreefor.com/ ====== embro Nice try...
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Air Force Shoots Down [Unresponsive] Drone Over Afghanistan - chaostheory http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-09/when-drones-go-wild-air-force-shoots-them-down?page= ====== TrevorJ "If communications cannot be restored and the failsafe measures fail (as they appear to have here), current dro...
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Hardware RNG via cheap USB SDR - ac29 https://pthree.org/2015/06/16/hardware-rng-through-an-rtl-sdr-dongle/ ====== ac29 This appears to be useable as an additional source of entropy in linux via rtl-entropy[0] and rng-tools[1]. [0] [https://github.com/pwarren/rtl-entropy](https://github.com/pwarren/rtl- entropy) [1]...
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Order of Operations - ph0rque http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2009/3/18/order_of_operations/ ====== jerf I disagree strongly with making "security" step 4. By the time you finally get around to making the app functional you may have fallen into several fundamental traps that require massive work to get out of the hol...
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Google's geographer-in-chief - pastalex http://www.fastcompany.com/3060811/most-creative-people/google-map-quest ====== adrianN I find it weird that people contribute to Google maps. I use OSM most of the time and contribute whenever I find a path that is missing, but I would never contribute to a closed data silo lik...
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Dear Apple, I’m leaving you - superchink http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-apple-im-leaving-you-2012-11 ====== Karunamon Headline is pretty much my stance. This recent bit of flat-out patent trolling (the whole slide to unlock thing, more recently their downright childish conduct wrt. a court order) evaporated wha...
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Ask HN: What is the best advice I can give my wife on finding freelance work? - krmmalik My wife was a practising Solicitor in the UK until recently. She's now lost her job and using this change in circumstance as an opportunity to re-assess her life. She has previous experience in Copywriting, and is very artistic ...
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Why Sapience built an all-seeing eye for employee productivity - gameface http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-sapience-built-an-all-seeing-eye-for-employee-productivity/ ====== gameface This has just been installed on all the developer PCs where I work. You can't turn it off. I guess it's another aspect of the su...
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Employers Choose Bonuses Over Raises - JumpCrisscross https://www.wsj.com/articles/benefit-gains-exceed-wage-growth-new-labor-data-shows-1537289455 ====== newscracker I wonder if there's a need to read the entire article, because anyone who thinks a little bit about continuous costs and one off costs will arrive at th...
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On St. Augustine's Confessions - tintinnabula http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/10/26/sarah-ruden-augustine-dialogue-god/ ====== ezekg I'm surprised and happy to see something like this posted and upvoted on HN. The first time I read through Confessions and City of God, I thought they were both _very_ tough reads (...
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"SMS of Death" Could Crash Many Mobile Phones - raphar http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/27021/ ====== dkersten Nothing new here. I used to work on an anti-fraud and anti-spam platform for SMS and we performed various checks on messages passing through the mobile network to prevent these kinds of messages...
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Cephaloponderings - lelf https://putanumonit.com/2019/07/26/cephaloponderings/ ====== cgio If you find this interesting “other minds” by Peter Godfrey Smith is an excellent book. ------ pvaldes > the males that detach their mating arms to keep from being eaten, and > generally they really can’t mate again after that ...
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AWS CodeBuild – Build and test code with continuous scaling - Trisell https://aws.amazon.com/codebuild/ ====== St-Clock I'm trying to find if they offer or plan to offer these features: 1\. Caching. CircleCI and Travis cache intermediate build artifacts (e.g., virtualenv in python) to reduce build time. 2\. Github p...
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A Change to Google Code Download Service - gigiduru http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-change-to-google-code-download-service.html ====== claudius You know that something is wrong with a website if it is worth loading a spinning gears icon to show as an animation while the rest of the page loads. Why...
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Show HN: PrefaceCSS – A CSS Boilerplate for Minimalists - giancarlostoro https://github.com/cluzier/PrefaceCSS ====== ahpearce I've been looking for something like this. I really dig the aesthetic. Great job! ~~~ giancarlostoro Hey thanks, I'm not the author, but I did contribute a bit by fixing up some of the README...
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“AI bookkeeper” startup that raised $100M and failed used humans instead of AI - ilarum https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/07/20/scalefactor-raised-100-million-in-a-year-then-blamed-covid-19-for-its-demise-employees-say-it-had-much-bigger-problems ====== teruakohatu There has been faked AI ever since the inv...
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Ask HN: Economics of Uber Eats - ycombonator Do you think Uber Eats is profitable ? Does the driver just gets paid a buck or two ? Recent order https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;GGiPqzN ====== NotPaidToPost Uber Eats, Deliveroo, etc. are like Uber, Lyft, etc. : Throwing massive mounts of money to 'grow' at huge ...
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Flask 0.5.1 Released - Python WSGI microframework - enduser http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask/0.5.1 ====== enduser From the mailing list: "And two hours later: the 0.5.1 point release. Why that? Because when you had a module named A without templates in A but the application's template folder in the subfolder A, Fl...
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Airbnb hosts are building their own direct booking websites in revolt - dionmanu https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/airbnb-hosts-are-building-their-own-direct-booking-websites-in-revolt.html ====== rogerkirkness Similar to sellers leaking from Amazon > Shopify. Reintermediation is the first step to digital enablement. No...
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Tell HN: Flesh out your profiles please - jacquesm There's an old internet joke, that on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.<p>The way to let people know that you're not a dog, is to establish an identity, maybe a short blurb about yourself and a way to contact you out-of-band.<p>Lots of HN profiles are blank, an...
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Review My App: Mides IDE - heat_miser Hey HN, I've been grinding away on this app for a couple of years, trying to build the best mobile IDE that I could on the iPhone / iPod Touch. I have recently ported it to iPad and wanted to get some feedback.<p>Thanks! - Irvin ====== heat_miser <http://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
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If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention - annadane https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/26/with-facebook-we-are-already-through-the-looking-glass ====== jjgreen ... and next to the article, a "share on Facebook" button ~~~ nix23 Activate the anti-social filter-list in u...
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Is Using Twitter Paying Off For You? Check Out Buffer - jameshicks http://www.thetechscoop.net/2011/03/23/is-using-twitter-paying-off-for-you-check-out-buffer/#axzz1HM8SDcPN ====== jameshicks extremely useful means of scheduling your twitter stream
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Why Do We Only Care About Programmers? - balac http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/why-do-we-only-care-about-programmers ====== lugg Ahh survivors guilt. Dont worry, it'll pass. On a little more serious note I believe it has a lot to do with supply and demand. Good programmers just think differently. Whether that wa...
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Supreme Court seek Obama administration views on Google-Oracle dispute - drallison http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-usa-court-copyright-idUSKBN0KL1IB20150112 ====== drallison This dispute centers upon whether APIs can be copyrighted. This case has broad implications for everyone who builds and uses softw...
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Indenting Cond Forms in Clojure - nathell http://blog.danieljanus.pl/2020/02/10/cond-indentation/ ====== kimi Worth checking out - it would be nice to see what cljfmt thinks of this.
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What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture - tntn https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/gun-culture/554351/?single_page=true ====== rabboRubble I grew up in a family with a lot of guns around. As an adult, I've never felt the need to waste my money on them. For me it's just another thing I have no ...
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Google Research: From Words to Concepts and Back - ot http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/from-words-to-concepts-and-back.html ====== mark_l_watson I am grabbing the data accompanying the blog post (<http://www- nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/crosswikis-data.tar.bz2/>) right now. Looks to be a great resource for tex...
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$50k competition to spot icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland - kirillzubovsky http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ship-iceberg-competition-kaggle-1.4405021 ====== toomuchtodo All ships over a certain gross tonnage or in commercial service must use AIS to announce themselves. Seems straightforwa...
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U.S. Economy Sees Sharp Downturn Amid Covid-19 Crisis - OrganizedChaos https://www.cybercoastal.com/u-s-economy-sees-sharp-downturn-amid-covid-19-crisis/ ====== masonic Plagiarized from Felix Richter's article: [https://www.statista.com/chart/18839/quarterly-real-gdp- grow...](https://www.statista.com/chart/18839/qua...
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This experiment proved that anyone could design a nuclear weapon - DanielRibeiro http://io9.com/this-experiment-proved-that-anyone-could-design-a-nucle-510618426 ====== Mvandenbergh >In the 1960s World War II was well over, and the United States and the Soviet Union were both settling into a nice, long, cold war. Both...
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Escher – Build beautiful interactive Web UIs in Julia - Lofkin https://shashi.github.io/Escher.jl/ ====== benhamner Beautiful! Appears inspired by RStudio's Shiny [http://shiny.rstudio.com/](http://shiny.rstudio.com/) ~~~ FractalNerve I'm currently working a lot with Matlab and seeing a beauty like Escher for Julia i...
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Programmer's Bill of Rights - roachsocal http://victorgarcia.me/programmers-bill-of-rights/ ====== eplanit I really want to _not_ criticize this post. It's from a new programmer who is early in his career. He has a lot to learn -- so did all of us at that stage. I'm not trying to be condescending. I must, however, ...
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Ubuntu made in CSS = Mind-Blown - gdi2290 http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/en/# ====== tejask This is awesome! ~~~ gdi2290 my thoughts exactly
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Qualcomm Said to Seek U.S. Import Ban for iPhones - niftich https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-03/qualcomm-said-to-seek-u-s-import-ban-for-iphones ====== PhantomGremlin Dumb move by Qualcomm. They just put a bullet thru the head of any remaining modem business they had with Apple. But maybe it had alread...
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Why Apple’s Frightened of Female Sexuality - lkrubner http://www.twinfinite.net/2014/06/08/apples-orgasms-female-sexuality-frightens-apple/ ====== mwfunk I came very close to missing the fact that there was a page 2 here, but to anyone that wants to read the whole thing: there's a page 2. I strongly agree with much o...
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Ask HN: What are your favorite board games? - martian Hackers tend to have great taste in board games, especially ones involving complex strategy. So, what games do you like to play? ====== andy_wrote I can't believe that I'm the first to mention One Night Ultimate Werewolf, which has been the consensus favorite among...
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Ask HN: moving my Django app away from GAE, where do I go? - fchollet Hi HN,<p>So I have this Django app (http://www.wysp.ws) that has gathered 1500 signups in 3 months of un-publicized beta, and is growing at an accelerating pace. It's hosted on Google App Engine (and user-submitted pictures are sent to S3).<p>I wa...
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Spielberg to Propose Oscars Rule Change That Would Disqualify Netflix Films - smacktoward https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/03/steven-spielberg-may-propose-oscars-rule-change-to-disqualify-netflix-films ====== arikr Netflix should create their own awards show.
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Ask HN: How Much Are Bloggers At Mashable, TechCrunch Paid? - momzpie These blogs <i>- - TechCrunch, Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget etc - -</i> are really popular, as you all know. I would like to know how much the bloggers at these websites are actually paid.<p>-------------------------------------<p>PS: This is my fi...
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Make_windows10_great_again.bat - Kristine1975 https://gist.github.com/IntergalacticApps/675339c2b805b4c9c6e9a442e0121b1d ====== Jaruzel Whereas I commend the effort that has gone into this script, the end result for most users will be an unusable Windows 10 installation. The script is VERY aggressive, and does not exp...
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Lawmakers Issued License Plates 'Invisible' To Traffic Cams - kilroy123 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130805/08323124067/lawmakers-issued-license-plates-that-make-them-invisible-to-traffic-cams-parking-tickets.shtml ====== vxNsr Well this comes as a surprise to no one. Though I am slightly taken aback that a p...
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Snoopers' Charter: Government Wins Vote on Investigatory Powers Bill - dubwubz http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12194441/Snoopers-Charter-Parliamentary-vote-on-the-investigatory-powers-bill-live-updates.html ====== beedogs Coming soon to a Western "democracy" near you. We've already got it down in Australia. ...
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Game of Life, Implemented in Game of Life - joss82 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2em5t7/game_of_life_implemented_in_game_of_life/ ====== ColinWright Discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644679](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644679) Videos: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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John Conway: Discovering free will (2011) - monort https://plus.maths.org/content/john-conway-discovering-free-will-part-i ====== dekhn If you're an armchair quantum theorist, I have a suggestion. Rather than sitting around positing how the world works, build an actual quantum experiment, and spend some time just thin...
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Ask HN: Possible to get Rust job without C++ background? - jetti I have been learning Rust in my free time for the past 6 months. I would love to be able to find a job that works with Rust full time as I&#x27;m bored with the .NET stack that I have been doing for the past 8 years. My worry is that, from my understandi...
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The GitHub Arctic Code Vault - gingernaut https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/ ====== tw4l As David Rosenthal (formerly of Sun, NVIDIA, and Stanford) explains, the actual Arctic Code Vault is a PR stunt, and has almost no chance of helping anyo...
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Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland? - bsg75 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564 ====== visarga My insight: it's the degree of integration of society. No disenfranchised sections. Besides Iceland, two other countries stand up: Japan an Switzerland. In the former, not even police or yakuza bear fire arms, ...
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We Need More Alternatives to Facebook - submeta https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alternatives-to-facebook/?set=607909 ====== kem This touches on so many issues at once I don't even know where to start (private versus public, social medial popularity cycles, distributed versus centralized services...
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New Facebook Android App - reviews scare me - vividmind https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana ====== macleanjr It's possible that these reviews are for the update that was pushed out on 12/6, and not the native app that is supposed to be released today. ~~~ Pr0 They are. The new native a...
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How Long Before VPNs Become Illegal? - nthitz http://torrentfreak.com/how-long-before-vpns-become-illegal-120615/ ====== ChuckMcM Never of course. To make them illegal would force the question of a constitutional right to privacy. So in the US at least it won't happen. That being said, I expect various people to cont...
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Why do many people feel the Chinese can't possibly be OK with their government? - w1ntermute https://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-people-feel-that-Chinese-cant-possibly-be-basically-ok-with-their-government-or-society?share=1 ====== throwaway90446 Because the brainwashing of Western education is that the values of the ...
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Understanding Image Virality [pdf] - sytelus https://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Deza_Understanding_Image_Virality_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf ====== M_Bakhtiari I'd be impressed if they could find an algorithm to determine the dankness of a meme.
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Daggerfall: Now available for free - tom9729 http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2009/07/09/daggerfall-now-available-for-free/ ====== troygoode If by "now" you mean July of 2009 - check the URL. ~~~ tom9729 Oops, didn't realize how old this was. I saw a link posted in the Amazon forums for Skyrim and thought I'd shar...
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Show HN: Listen to Interview with Derrick Mar of Pathrise (YC W18) - jacobpedd https://anchor.fm/hs/episodes/26-Pathrise-w-Derrick-Mar-e2j55p ====== mtmail Blog posts aren't part of Show HN ([https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)) so I'd argue interviews shouldn't either....
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CLisp needs maintainers - ghostDancer http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.general/14256 ====== 616c You will see that a few people ask: why care in the face of such impressive native code compilers: Steel Bank, Clozure, and Embedded (although maybe ECL is short for something else; ironically they also needed a n...
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Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing - gojko http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6368227 ====== jchung To be fair, the patent was filed by a five year old whose patent-attorney father was trying to educate on how the patent process works. [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/business/patents-patent- of...](htt...
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Have a free tool for devs and digital designers? Submit here. Is free - Mike_Andreuzza https://www.colorsandfonts.com/submit ====== nh2_amine Colors and Fonts Extractor A firefox extension that does just that and exports them as CSS variables [https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/colors-and- fonts...](https:/...
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The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js - callum85 https://nodesource.com/blog/node-desktop-applications ====== doublerebel There are a number of ways to make desktop apps with JS. TideKit/TideSDK uses V8 IIRC. On Linux, Gnome has the GJS API. Tint and Quaxe are two more promising newcomers. All of these use a JS...
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Supermensch: What does the superhero craze say about our own times? - Hooke https://aeon.co/essays/why-superheroes-are-the-shape-of-tech-things-to-come ====== opportune Way too complicated an explanation. I don’t think it has to do with technology at all. I think the reason superheroes are all the rage is that they p...
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Huawei in early talks with U.S. firms to license 5G platform - thg https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-licensing-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-in-early-talks-with-u-s-firms-to-license-5g-platform-huawei-executive-idUKKBN1WY010 ====== dang "Early talks" probably isn't substantive enough to count as significa...
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Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem - petethomas https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/silicon-valley-saudi-arabia.html ====== joe_the_user The problem is that the Saudi Regime has reached a point of not just murder but instability and poor judgement. IE, they brutally murdered someone of substance, in a lawles...
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Awesome JS - xethorn https://github.com/xethorn/awesome-js ====== unoti Hi! The title in the github repos maybe should say JavaScript, not Python. "A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php."
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Moving from bash to zsh - DanielRibeiro http://askubuntu.com/questions/1577/moving-from-bash-to-zsh ====== crazydiamond Recommend reading zsh-lovers (<http://grml.org/zsh/zsh-lovers.html>). Also check the zsh reference card on the sourceforge website. Learn the various techniques of globbing on the command line. For...
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Could ayahuasca have health benefits? - jeffwass http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41333172 ====== dnc While I was on a retreat this year in a Peruvian village, I was told by several natives (Shipibo people) that, by their tradition (some estimations are that Shipibo tribes have been using Ayahuasca for millenias), Aya...
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Ask HN: Where to report bugs in HN? - JoshCole I just noticed that one of the news items is appearing twice on the ask list (http://imgur.com/yVzSP.png). I'm guessing that this a bug, but couldn't find a Hacker News issue tracker. ====== kazuya I get to mind less about consistency of those web apps. You don't get c...
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Another Book on Data Science – Learn R and Python in Parallel - zelda_1 https://www.anotherbookondatascience.com/ ====== clarityPhone I skimmed through the book, and think it does a very poor job at showcasing how R and Python are juxtaposed in industry. To be fair, the book advertises showing R and Python code side-...
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Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012 - brutuscat http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate-impacts-and-vulnerability-2012/ ====== brutuscat Some very interesting maps I found in the pdf report which are forcing me to read this. Potential environmental and economic impact of climate change <h...
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Don't tell Google, Facebook or Twitter, Instant Search Hacked In 2+ Hrs - MII9 http://www.YTLatest.com ====== Pewpewarrows What exactly does this prove? Oh man, you used AJAX to call an API and pull up a result from it. Let me know when it scales to millions of people hitting your page every hour, with it still ret...
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DHH (Rails) and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress) talk about open source [notes] - kirillzubovsky https://smashnotes.com/p/rework/e/open-source-and-power-with-matt-mullenweg ====== AlchemistCamp The entirety of the visible page is a signup form, a subscribe button and a login button. ~~~ kirillzubovsky Hi AlchemistCamp, Kir...
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What’s Something That Was Said to You That’s Forever Changed the Way You Think? - jimsojim https://upvoted.com/2015/12/12/whats-something-that-was-told-to-you-thats-forever-changed-the-way-you-think/?utm_content=bufferb40e2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== ourcat This question.
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New Emoji include 'tiny p****' and 'period blood', according to the Internet - Varcht https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/02/06/tiny-penis-and-period-emoji-headed-your-keyboard/2792533002/ ====== towaway1138 Does anyone really want to receive tiny dick pics?
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Reset your life - msvan http://levels.io/reset-your-life/ ====== pearjuice First and foremost: this was posted on Monday the 22nd of April, 2013. Secondly, the guy writing this is extremely privileged yet implying he somehow had a hard time and had to "escape" the system. If anything, his life was getting monotonous ...
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BedBudd - The answer to bed-based arguments - ryanSP http://bedbudd.com ====== ryanSP Is this thing for real? Not sure, looks nice though!
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How I Reimplemented My Shopping Cart To Sell More Software, w/ Code - patio11 http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/developing-shopping-cart.htm ====== patio11 Hiya guys. I recently redid the shopping cart for my business. Then I spent a few hours writing it up for folks, with the hope somebody can use something....
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Avoid CloudAtCost - st3fan I found the following email in my inbox today:<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;gKfpWiWN<p>Note the following:<p>I never received the original initial email about this emergency maintainance. I doubt they actually sent that. I have a couple of accounts and none of them received the ini...
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North American vs. Japanese zoning - oftenwrong http://devonzuegel.com/post/north-american-vs-japanese-zoning ====== avar Somewhat tangential: One of the things I was most disappointed in when visiting Japan was discovering (at least in Tokyo, Kyoto etc.) that they don't really seem to have the concept of a public gre...
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Discovery of unpredicted stellar black hole in milky way galaxy - QueensGambit https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/caos-cao112519.php ====== QueensGambit Until now, scientists had estimated the mass of an individual stellar black hole in our Galaxy at no more than 20 times that of the Sun. But, this stella...
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A discussion of scientific python and the business of open source - mikeckennedy http://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/34/continuum-scientific-python-and-the-business-of-open-source ====== brudgers The interviewee, Travis Oliphant, is primary developer of NumPy and a founding contributor to SciPy.
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Real-time metric counter using Soviet-era Nixie tubes - misterkgb http://tellaparteng.tumblr.com/post/51805124205/in-the-nix-of-time ====== jacquesm When I read these and see the general response I wonder how the average code- jockey today would respond to the articles that were quite common in Elektor and other 80'...
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